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March 19, 2025
ENGROSSED
HOUSE BILL No. 1380
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DIGEST OF HB 1380 (Updated March 18, 2025 9:13 am - DI 140)
Citations Affected: IC 9-18.1.
Synopsis: Supplemental fee for electric vehicles. Provides that the
supplemental fee to register an electric vehicle does not apply to a
motor driven cycle.
Effective: January 1, 2026.
Boy, Lawson, Andrade, Patterson
(SENATE SPONSORS — DORIOT, SPENCER, MAXWELL, FORD J.D.)
January 13, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation.
February 3, 2025, amended, reported — Do Pass.
February 6, 2025, read second time, ordered engrossed.
February 7, 2025, engrossed.
February 10, 2025, read third time, passed. Yeas 90, nays 0.
SENATE ACTION
February 20, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Homeland Security and
Transportation.
March 18, 2025, reported favorably — Do Pass.
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First Regular Session of the 124th General Assembly (2025)
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ENGROSSED
HOUSE BILL No. 1380
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
motor vehicles.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
1 SECTION 1. IC 9-18.1-5-12, AS AMENDED BY P.L.211-2023,
2 SECTION 23, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
3 JANUARY 1, 2026]: Sec. 12. (a) The supplemental fee in this section
4 applies after December 31, 2017, to each electric vehicle and hybrid
5 vehicle that is required to be registered under this article. The
6 supplemental fee in this section does not apply to vehicles subject to
7 the motor carrier fuel tax under IC 6-6-4.1 or motor driven cycles.
8 (b) As used in this section, "electric vehicle" means a vehicle that:
9 (1) is propelled by an electric motor powered by a battery or other
10 electrical device incorporated into the vehicle; and
11 (2) is not propelled by an engine powered by the combustion of
12 a hydrocarbon fuel, including gasoline, diesel, propane, or liquid
13 natural gas.
14 (c) As used in this section, "hybrid vehicle" means a vehicle that:
15 (1) draws propulsion energy from both an internal combustion
16 engine and an energy storage device; and
17 (2) employs a regenerative braking system to recover waste
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1 energy to charge the energy storage device that is providing
2 propulsion energy.
3 (d) In addition to any other fee required to register an electric
4 vehicle under this chapter, the supplemental fee to register an electric
5 vehicle is one hundred fifty dollars ($150). The bureau shall determine
6 a new fee amount to take effect as of January 1 of the following year by
7 determining the product of the following:
8 (1) Before October 1, 2023:
9 (A) the fee in effect for the determination year; multiplied by
10 (B) the factor determined under IC 6-6-1.6-2(b).
11 (2) Before October 1 of each year thereafter:
12 (A) the fee in effect for the determination year; multiplied by
13 (B) the factor determined under IC 6-6-1.6-3.
14 The fee shall be rounded to the nearest dollar.
15 (e) In addition to any other fee required to register a hybrid vehicle
16 under this chapter, the supplemental fee to register a hybrid vehicle is
17 fifty dollars ($50). The bureau shall determine a new fee amount to
18 take effect as of January 1 of the following year by determining the
19 product of the following:
20 (1) Before October 1, 2023:
21 (A) the fee in effect for the determination year; multiplied by
22 (B) the factor determined under IC 6-6-1.6-2(b).
23 (2) Before October 1 of each year thereafter:
24 (A) the fee in effect for the determination year; multiplied by
25 (B) the factor determined under IC 6-6-1.6-3.
26 The fee shall be rounded to the nearest dollar.
27 (f) The fee shall be deposited in the local road and bridge matching
28 grant fund established by IC 8-23-30-2.
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COMMITTEE REPORT
Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Roads and Transportation, to
which was referred House Bill 1380, has had the same under
consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the House with
the recommendation that said bill be amended as follows:
Page 1, line 7, after "IC 6-6-4.1" delete "." and insert "or motor
driven cycles.".
Page 2, line 14, delete "This subsection does".
Page 2, delete lines 15 and 16.
and when so amended that said bill do pass.
(Reference is to HB 1380 as introduced.)
PRESSEL
Committee Vote: yeas 10, nays 0.
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COMMITTEE REPORT
Mr. President: The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and
Transportation, to which was referred House Bill No. 1380, has had the
same under consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the
Senate with the recommendation that said bill DO PASS.
(Reference is to HB 1380 as printed February 3, 2025.)
CRIDER, Chairperson
Committee Vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0
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