Amends existing law to implement a cost per mile user fee for vehicles weighing more than 60,000 pounds.
TRANSPORTATION -- Amends existing law to implement a cost per mile user fee for vehicles weighing more than 60,000 pounds.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
This legislation is not intended to be a revenue raising measure. Itreplacesthecurrentfive(5)tiersystemofregisteringallcommercialandfarmvehicleshavingamaximum grossweightinexcessofsixty-thousand(60,000)pounds. Thecurrentregistrationisbasedonthemaximum gross weight of a vehicle as declared by the owner and the total number of miles driven on roads and highways in the state, county, city, and highway district systems in Idaho to determine the appropriate tier. This legislation establishes a base fee or a plate fee of two-hundred eighty dollars ($280), which is an annual registration fee and shall be due on the anniversary date of the vehicle's registration. Inadditiontotheregistrationfee, thereshallbepaidonallcommercialandfarmvehicleshavingamaximum gross weight in excess of sixty-thousand (60,000) pounds, a mileage fee based upon the maximum gross weight of a vehicle as declared by the owner and the total number of miles driven on roads and highways in the state, county, city, and high district systems in Idaho regardless of the state in which the vehicles is registered. The mileage use fee shall be determined by multiplying a cost-per-mile charge by the total miles driven in Idaho. The mileage use fee chart replaces the current five (5) tier system for total miles driven.
LATEST ACTION
Reported Printed; referred to Transportation
BILL INFO
- Session
- 2019
- Chamber
- senate
- Status date
- Feb 8, 2019