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Senate Transportation debates mileage-based charge for electric vehicles, payment timing and exemptions
Summary
Senate Transportation reviewed competing House and Ways and Means proposals for a mileage-based user fee for electric vehicles, focusing on a proposed 1.4¢/mile rate (~$154/11,000 miles), whether payments should be upfront (with monthly/quarterly options) or billed at year-end, exemptions, a rental-car surcharge, and administrative appeals.
Senate Transportation met March 22 to review competing proposals that would shift some road funding to a per-mile charge for electric vehicles and to decide what language the committee should ask staff to draft.
The committee examined two versions: the House Transportation language (which included a pay-as-you-go option and an upfront estimated-payment path) and a Ways and Means amendment that omits statutory pay-as-you-go language and instead narrows payment timing options and adds implementation reporting requirements. The Ways and Means draft also retitles the measure to a "road usage charge" and adds a separate surcharge aimed at EV short-term rentals.
Patrick Murphy, state policy director for the Agency of Transportation, told the committee the administration wants to offer flexibility. "Our hope is to be able to provide as many options for payment as possible, to be as flexible as possible," he said,…
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