Kentucky House Bill 508 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 11 2021 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2021-02-11 - to Committee on Committees (H)
Pending: House Committee On Committees Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Amend KRS 138.220 to set a single excise tax on gasoline and special fuels; set initial base rate at 24.6 cents per gallon (cpg); subject tax to annual adjustment; eliminate references to taxation based on the average wholesale price of gasoline and the supplemental tax on gasoline and special fuels; require annual notification to motor fuel dealers of the adjusted rate of the excise tax on gasoline and special fuels for each upcoming fiscal year and annual notification to county clerks of the adjusted rate of highway user fees for electric and hybrid vehicles; amend KRS 138.660 to set the initial base rate for the heavy equipment motor carrier surtax at 4.3 cpg for gasoline and 7.2 cpg for special fuels; subject the surtax to annual adjustment; create a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to define "taxes"; provide a mechanism for annual adjustment of the excise tax on gasoline and special fuels and the heavy equipment motor carrier surtax based on changes in the National Highway Construction Cost Index 2.0; allow these taxes to increase no more than ten percent or decrease no more than two percent from one year to the next, subject to the statutory minimums; create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to establish base highway user fees for nonhybrid electric motor vehicles and plug-in electric hybrid motor vehicles; require collection of the fees at the time of initial registration and upon renewal; require the fees to be adjusted in the same manner as for motor fuel excise taxes; require the fee be transferred to the road fund; amend KRS 186.010 to define "nonhybrid electric motor vehicle" and "plug-in electric hybrid motor vehicles"; amend KRS 186.050 to require payment of the highway user fees for nonhybrid electric motor vehicles and plug-in electric hybrid motor vehicles at the time of registration or renewal; amend KRS 138.210 to delete the definitions for "average wholesale price," "average wholesale floor price," and " quarterly survey value"; amend KRS 138.695, 138.270, 234.320, 234.380, 42.498, 177.329, and 177.365 to conform; repeal KRS 138.228, regarding the calculation of average wholesale price of gasoline, KRS 138.4602, regarding determination of total consideration on vehicles purchased between 2009 and 2014, and KRS 175.505, regarding the debt payment acceleration fund; Sections 1 to 3 are EFFECTIVE July 1, 2021; Sections 4 and 6 are EFFECTIVE January 1, 2022; APPROPRIATION.

AN ACT relating to highway funding and making an appropriation therefor.

Rep. Jim Duplessis [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-02-11	House	to Committee on Committees (H)
2021-02-11	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21RS/hb508.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/21RS/hb508/orig_bill.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/21RS/hb508/LM.pdf