Bill Text: FL S0140 | 2021 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Fees/Electric Vehicles

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Failed) 2021-04-30 - Died in Appropriations [S0140 Detail]

Download: Florida-2021-S0140-Comm_Sub.html

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       Florida Senate - 2021                              CS for SB 140
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Transportation; and Senator Brandes
       
       
       
       
       
       596-02650-21                                           2021140c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to fees; amending s. 320.08001, F.S.;
    3         creating additional fees for electric vehicles;
    4         creating a license tax and an additional fee for plug-
    5         in hybrid electric vehicles; authorizing persons and
    6         entities to biennially renew vehicle registrations for
    7         electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric
    8         vehicles; providing for the distribution of proceeds
    9         from the additional fees; providing that certain
   10         vehicles are exempt from specified fees; providing for
   11         the future expiration and reversion of specified
   12         statutory text; providing a contingent effective date.
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   14  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   16         Section 1. Section 320.08001, Florida Statutes, is amended
   17  to read:
   18         320.08001 Low-speed, electric, and plug-in hybrid electric
   19  vehicles; license tax.—
   20         (1) The license tax for a an electric vehicle or low-speed
   21  vehicle is the same as that prescribed in s. 320.08 for a
   22  vehicle that is not electrically powered.
   23         (2)(a) The license tax for an electric vehicle weighing
   24  less than 10,000 pounds is the same as that prescribed in s.
   25  320.08 for a vehicle that is not electrically powered, plus an
   26  additional $135 flat fee. Beginning on January 1, 2025, the
   27  license tax for an electric vehicle weighing less than 10,000
   28  pounds is the same as that prescribed in s. 320.08 for a vehicle
   29  that is not electrically powered, plus an additional $150 flat
   30  fee.
   31         (b) The license tax for an electric vehicle weighing 10,000
   32  pounds or more is the same as that prescribed in s. 320.08 for a
   33  vehicle that is not electrically powered, plus an additional
   34  $235 flat fee. Beginning on January 1, 2025, the license tax for
   35  an electric vehicle weighing 10,000 pounds or more is the same
   36  as that prescribed in s. 320.08 for a vehicle that is not
   37  electrically powered, plus an additional $250 flat fee.
   38         (3) The license tax for a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle
   39  is the same as that prescribed in s. 320.08 for a vehicle that
   40  is not partially powered by a rechargeable energy-storage
   41  system, plus an additional $35 flat fee. Beginning on January 1,
   42  2025, the license tax for a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle is
   43  the same as that prescribed in s. 320.08 for a vehicle that is
   44  not partially powered by a rechargeable energy-storage system,
   45  plus an additional $50 flat fee.
   46         (4) Any person or entity that registers a vehicle
   47  identified in subsection (2) or subsection (3) may renew the
   48  vehicle registration biennially in accordance with s.
   49  320.07(2)(b).
   50         (5) The proceeds of the additional flat fees imposed under
   51  subsections (2) and (3) must be deposited into the State
   52  Transportation Trust Fund.
   53         (6) A low-speed, electric, or plug-in hybrid electric
   54  vehicle that uses a battery storage system of up to 5 kilowatt
   55  hours is exempt from any fee imposed under this section.
   56         Section 2. The amendments made by this act to s. 320.08001,
   57  Florida Statutes, expire on December 31, 2030, and the text of
   58  that section shall revert to that in existence on June 30, 2021,
   59  except that any amendments to such text enacted other than by
   60  this act must be preserved and continue to operate to the extent
   61  that such amendments are not dependent upon the portions of text
   62  which expire pursuant to this section.
   63         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021, but
   64  only if SB 138 or similar legislation takes effect, if such
   65  legislation is adopted in the same legislative session or an
   66  extension thereof and becomes a law.