Bill Text: FL S1346 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Fees/Electric Vehicles
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2020-03-14 - Died in Infrastructure and Security [S1346 Detail]
Download: Florida-2020-S1346-Introduced.html
Florida Senate - 2020 SB 1346 By Senator Brandes 24-00777C-20 20201346__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to fees; amending s. 320.08001, F.S.; 3 creating an additional fee for electric vehicles; 4 creating a license tax and an additional fee for plug 5 in hybrid electric vehicles; providing for the 6 distribution of proceeds from the additional fees; 7 requiring, on specified dates, the Department of 8 Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to increase the 9 additional fees, subject to certain requirements; 10 providing that certain vehicles are exempt from 11 specified fees; providing for the future expiration 12 and reversion of specified statutory text; providing a 13 contingent effective date. 14 15 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 16 17 Section 1. Section 320.08001, Florida Statutes, is amended 18 to read: 19 320.08001 Low-speed, electric, and plug-in hybrid electric 20 vehicles; license tax.— 21 (1) The license tax for aan electric vehicle orlow-speed 22 vehicle is the same as that prescribed in s. 320.08 for a 23 vehicle that is not electrically powered. 24 (2)(a) The license tax for an electric vehicle weighing 25 less than 10,000 pounds is the same as that prescribed in s. 26 320.08 for a vehicle that is not electrically powered, plus an 27 additional $135 flat fee. Beginning on January 1, 2025, the 28 license tax for an electric vehicle weighing less than 10,000 29 pounds is the same as that prescribed in s. 320.08 for a vehicle 30 that is not electrically powered, plus an additional $150 flat 31 fee. 32 (b) The license tax for an electric vehicle weighing 10,000 33 pounds or more is the same as that prescribed in s. 320.08 for a 34 vehicle that is not electrically powered, plus an additional 35 $235 flat fee. Beginning on January 1, 2025, the license tax for 36 an electric vehicle weighing 10,000 pounds or more is the same 37 as that prescribed in s. 320.08 for a vehicle that is not 38 electrically powered, plus an additional $250 flat fee. 39 (c) Fifty percent of the proceeds of the additional flat 40 fee must be deposited into the State Transportation Trust Fund, 41 and 50 percent must be deposited into the Electric Vehicle 42 Infrastructure Grant Program created under s. 339.286. 43 (3) The license tax for a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle 44 is the same as that prescribed in s. 320.08 for a vehicle that 45 is not partially powered by a rechargeable energy-storage 46 system, plus an additional $35 flat fee. Beginning on January 1, 47 2025, the license tax for a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle is 48 the same as that prescribed in s. 320.08 for a vehicle that is 49 not partially powered by a rechargeable energy-storage system, 50 plus an additional $50 flat fee. The proceeds of the additional 51 flat fee must be deposited into the State Transportation Trust 52 Fund. 53 (4) On January 1, 2024, and every 5 years thereafter, the 54 department shall increase the additional flat fees imposed under 55 subsections (2) and (3) to ensure that the additional fees 56 reflect any upward adjustment in the South Region Consumer Price 57 Index compiled by the United States Department of Labor. The fee 58 increase must be equal to the average percentage change in the 59 South Region Consumer Price Index for the prior 5 years. 60 (5) A low-speed, electric, or plug-in hybrid electric 61 vehicle that uses a battery storage system of up to 5 kilowatt 62 hours is exempt from any fee imposed under this section. 63 Section 2. The amendments made by this act to s. 320.08001, 64 Florida Statutes, expire on July 1, 2030, and the text of that 65 section shall revert to that in existence on June 30, 2020, 66 except that any amendments to such text enacted other than by 67 this act must be preserved and continue to operate to the extent 68 that such amendments are not dependent upon the portions of text 69 which expire pursuant to this section. 70 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020, but 71 only if SB 1230 or similar legislation takes effect, if such 72 legislation is adopted in the same legislative session or an 73 extension thereof and becomes a law.