Bill Text: TX HB1669 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of a motor vehicle mileage fee pilot program for certain motor vehicles by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-10 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1669 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1669-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of a motor vehicle mileage fee pilot program for certain motor vehicles by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-10 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1669 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1669-Introduced.html
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| By: Harper-Brown | H.B. No. 1669 | |
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| relating to the establishment of an electric motor vehicle mileage | ||
| fee pilot program by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS. In this Act: | ||
| (1) "Department" means the Texas Department of Motor | ||
| Vehicles. | ||
| (2) "Electric motor vehicle" means a motor vehicle | ||
| that uses electricity as its only source of motor power. | ||
| SECTION 2. ELECTRIC MOTOR VEHICLE MILEAGE FEE PILOT | ||
| PROGRAM. (a) The department by rule shall establish and implement | ||
| a statewide pilot program to assess owners of electric motor | ||
| vehicles a vehicle mileage fee that is based on the number of miles | ||
| traveled on public roads in this state by those motor vehicles. The | ||
| pilot program must require all electric motor vehicles registered | ||
| in this state to be subject to the mileage fee. | ||
| (b) The pilot program must provide for two methods of | ||
| participation. The owner of an electric motor vehicle may have the | ||
| vehicle's mileage determined by: | ||
| (1) an odometer reading that will occur in a manner | ||
| specified by the department; or | ||
| (2) a device installed in the vehicle that | ||
| electronically reports the number of miles traveled. | ||
| (c) The department by rule shall establish: | ||
| (1) the technologies to be used under Subsection | ||
| (b)(2), including technical specifications for those technologies; | ||
| (2) the manner of fee collection; and | ||
| (3) incentives for participants to equip their | ||
| vehicles with an electronic reporting device. | ||
| (d) In implementing the pilot program the department shall | ||
| consider, to the extent possible: | ||
| (1) economic efficiency; | ||
| (2) long-term revenue generation; | ||
| (3) long-term revenue stability; | ||
| (4) charging fairness; and | ||
| (5) privacy concerns. | ||
| (e) The department by rule shall set the amount of the | ||
| electric motor vehicle mileage fee on a per mile basis. In | ||
| determining the amount of the fee, the department shall consider | ||
| the average amount of gasoline tax paid for a gasoline-powered | ||
| motor vehicle of a comparable class. | ||
| SECTION 3. REPORT. Not later than October 1, 2012, the | ||
| department shall submit a report to the legislature that includes | ||
| recommendations regarding: | ||
| (1) the feasibility of permanently assessing an | ||
| electric motor vehicle mileage fee in this state; and | ||
| (2) legislation to permanently implement an electric | ||
| motor vehicle mileage fee. | ||
| SECTION 4. EXPIRATION. This Act expires September 1, 2013, | ||
| and the department may not impose a vehicle mileage fee under the | ||
| pilot program established under this Act after that date. | ||
| SECTION 5. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect | ||
| immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members | ||
| elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas | ||
| Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for | ||
| immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
