TALLAHASSEE — Florida electric powered car or truck homeowners would pay out a registration price aimed at encouraging make up for misplaced gasoline-tax bucks, below a monthly bill proposed Tuesday by Senate Transportation, Tourism and Financial Development Appropriations Chairman Ed Hooper, R-Clearwater.
The proposal (SB 28), submitted for thing to consider during the 2024 legislative session, seeks to impose a annually registration fee of $200 on electrical autos that would be in addition to common registration expenses.
The value would go up to $250 starting in 2029. An yearly charge of $50 a calendar year would be imposed on plug-in hybrids. The legislative session will commence Jan. 9.
The Senate in the course of the 2023 session unanimously accredited a equivalent measure, but the monthly bill was not picked up by the Household.
Florida utilizes fuel tax revenues to pay for transportation projects. But a Senate workers analysis of the 2023 proposal explained an enhance in the use of electrical automobiles could final result in a 5.6 % to 20 % fall in “motor-gasoline based income streams” by 2040.
The analysis reported 31 states impose some variety of registration cost on electric automobiles.
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