Bill Text: TX HB820 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to imposing an additional fee for the registration of electric and hybrid vehicles.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-05 - Left pending in committee [HB820 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB820-Introduced.html
  88R1579 MP-F
 
  By: King of Hemphill H.B. No. 820
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to imposing an additional fee for the registration of
  electric and hybrid vehicles.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 502.198(a), Transportation Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  Except as provided by Sections 502.058, 502.060,
  502.1911, 502.192, 502.356, [and] 502.357, and 502.360 and
  Subchapter H, this section applies to all fees collected by a county
  assessor-collector under this chapter.
         SECTION 2.  Subchapter G, Chapter 502, Transportation Code,
  is amended by adding Section 502.360 to read as follows:
         Sec. 502.360.  ADDITIONAL FEE FOR ELECTRIC AND HYBRID
  VEHICLES. (a) In this section:
               (1)  "Electric vehicle" means a motor vehicle that uses
  electricity as its only source of motor power.
               (2)  "Hybrid vehicle" means a motor vehicle that uses
  gasoline or conventional diesel fuel and electricity as its sources
  of motor power.
         (b)  In addition to other fees authorized under this chapter,
  at the time of application for registration or renewal of
  registration of an electric vehicle or hybrid vehicle, the
  applicant shall pay an additional fee of:
               (1)  $200, if the vehicle is an electric vehicle; or
               (2)  $100, if the vehicle is a hybrid vehicle.
         (c)  Fees collected under this section must be deposited to
  the credit of the state highway fund, except that 10 percent of the
  fees collected under this section must be deposited to the credit of
  the electric vehicle battery disposal account created under
  Subsection (d).
         (d)  The electric vehicle battery disposal account is
  created as an account in the general revenue fund and shall be
  administered by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.  
  Money in the account may be used only by the Texas Commission on
  Environmental Quality to reimburse costs incurred by this state or
  political subdivisions of this state that are associated with the
  disposal of electric vehicle batteries.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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