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
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By: King of Hemphill | H.B. No. 820 |
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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, [ |
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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. |