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Transportation Legislation Review Committee. The bill
authorizes a county, city and county, or municipality or a Taxpayer's Bill
of Rights exempt enterprise created by a city, city and county, or
municipality (local government) to generate additional fee-based funding
for local transportation system strategies that improve safety for
vulnerable road users (vulnerable road user protection strategies).
Specifically, the bill:
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Authorizes a local government to impose additional local
motor vehicle registration fees, up to specified maximum
amounts that are annually adjusted for inflation or
deflation, on passenger cars and light trucks (fees);
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Allows fees to be first imposed beginning with a motor
vehicle registration period beginning on January 1, 2026,
or January 1 of a later year, with adjustments to fee
amounts only taking effect beginning on a subsequent
January 1, and imposed in amounts that are:
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Based on the weight of a passenger car or light
truck, and, in the sole discretion of a local
government, fuel-efficiency, with fees being higher
for heavier motor vehicles and, for motor vehicles
in the same weight class, light trucks and, if
applicable, less fuel-efficient motor vehicles; and
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Reasonably calculated based on the impacts to
vulnerable road users caused by fee payers and the
costs of remediating those impacts by funding
vulnerable road user protection strategies;
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Requires fee revenue to be credited to a dedicated local
cash fund or account and expended only for vulnerable
road user protection strategies, which include infrastructure
projects, including active transportation network projects
that meet specified criteria, and local transit improvements
and enhancements;
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Authorizes and encourages local governments to consider
equity, meaning fairness in mobility and accessibility to
meet the needs of all community members through the
provision of equitable levels of access to affordable and
reliable transportation options based on the needs of the
populations being served;
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Requires each local government that imposes fees to
provide its fee schedule to the department of revenue so
that the department can collect the fees on behalf of the
local government and distribute fee revenue to the local
government; and
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Allows a local government, in its sole discretion and
pursuant to written criteria adopted by the local
government, to reduce or waive fees for a motor vehicle
owner who establishes economic hardship.
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