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House Transportation panel reviews Ways and Means rewrite of mileage-based user fee, adds EV rental charge and $2.2M transfer
Summary
On March 20, the House Transportation committee reviewed an 11-page Ways and Means amendment that narrows reporting for the mileage-based user fee to a single end-of-period method, removes an initial pay-as-you-go option, creates a 1% EV rental road-usage charge, and inserts a $2.2 million one-time transfer to the transportation fund (with $1.7M to town highway aid).
The House Transportation Committee on March 20 reviewed an 11-page Ways and Means amendment to the T bill that substantially changes how Vermont would collect a mileage-based user fee (MBUF), adds a 1% road-usage charge on electric-vehicle rentals, and transfers $2.2 million into the transportation fund to cushion near-term revenue shifts.
The amendment, summarized to the committee by Damon Leonard of the Office of Legislative Council, removes the previously proposed ‘pay-as-you-go’ and upfront estimated-fee options and leaves a single end-of-period mileage-accounting method. “There is now only one method for calculating the mileage-based user fee in here,” Leonard said as he walked members through the replacement chapter labeled “road usage charges.” The amendment also requires the Agency of Transportation to produce a report and legislative language if a self-reporting pay-as-you-go option is to be offered later.
Why it matters: the change pushes the first full MBUF collections well past the coming fiscal year and alters near-term cash flows for the transportation fund. Joint Fiscal…
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