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By Chris Marquette, Sam Ogozalek and Oriana Pawlyk
04/29/2025
The House Transportation Committee early on Tuesday released draft text of its portion of the GOP’s sprawling domestic policy bill, which it plans to mark up Wednesday. The proposal includes $15 billion for upgrading various parts of the aviation system, as well as new fees on electric vehicles and a first-of-its-kind $20 annual fee on all other passenger vehicles.
The new fee is intended to move the country away from the 18.4 cents-per-gallon federal gasoline tax, which has not been raised since 1993 and has had its buying power steadily eroded even as infrastructure spending has increased. But raising it, at least on the federal level, has been a political non-starter
Lawmakers have toyed with the idea of moving instead to a system of charging people based on how many miles they drive, but that idea has privacy challenges and so far state-level pilot projects have not been nationalized.
Besides the broad $20 levy, the proposal would impose an annual vehicle registration fee of $200 for electric vehicles and $100 for hybrid vehicles. The new user fees are estimated to provide $50 billion over the next decade, according to the committee.
The hybrid and EV registration fees would take effect immediately, and the fee on the other passenger vehicles would take effect in 2031, Transportation Chair Sam Graves (R-Mo.) said.
By Chris Marquette, Sam Ogozalek and Oriana Pawlyk
04/29/2025
The House Transportation Committee early on Tuesday released draft text of its portion of the GOP’s sprawling domestic policy bill, which it plans to mark up Wednesday. The proposal includes $15 billion for upgrading various parts of the aviation system, as well as new fees on electric vehicles and a first-of-its-kind $20 annual fee on all other passenger vehicles.
The new fee is intended to move the country away from the 18.4 cents-per-gallon federal gasoline tax, which has not been raised since 1993 and has had its buying power steadily eroded even as infrastructure spending has increased. But raising it, at least on the federal level, has been a political non-starter
Lawmakers have toyed with the idea of moving instead to a system of charging people based on how many miles they drive, but that idea has privacy challenges and so far state-level pilot projects have not been nationalized.
Besides the broad $20 levy, the proposal would impose an annual vehicle registration fee of $200 for electric vehicles and $100 for hybrid vehicles. The new user fees are estimated to provide $50 billion over the next decade, according to the committee.
The hybrid and EV registration fees would take effect immediately, and the fee on the other passenger vehicles would take effect in 2031, Transportation Chair Sam Graves (R-Mo.) said.
