RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 155 (HB 645) 2024 Regular Session Freiberg
Existing law provides for a road usage fee not to exceed $110 per year for electric vehicles
and not to exceed $60 for hybrid vehicles in accordance with provisions of existing law.
New law eliminates the not to exceed provision and identifies the fee as $110 and $60,
respectively.
Prior law defined the terms "owner" and "secretary".
New law removes the definitions for "owner" and "secretary" and adds a definition for
"registration license tax".
Prior law provided for the secretary of the La. Dept. of Revenue to collect the road usage fee
in existing law.
New law repeals prior law.
New law designates the commissioner or an authorized agent to collect the road usage fee
at the same time and in the same manner as the registration license tax.
New law allows the commissioner to promulgate rules in accordance with the Administrative
Procedure Act necessary to administer and collect fees authorized in existing law and new
law, including procedures for the collection of the road usage fee applicable to vehicles first
registered in 2025.
Prior law required the secretary to promulgate rules in consultation with the Dept. of
Transportation and Development to develop a prorated fee schedule for electric and hybrid
vehicles and to prescribe methods to report and remit the fee levied by existing law and to
provide collection and administrative procedures to administer existing law.
New law repeals prior law.
Existing law specifies that the proceeds of the fees collected to be allocated in specified
ways.
Applies the provisions of this Act to hybrid and electric vehicles subject to the registration
license tax on or after Jan. 1, 2026.
Effective upon signature of the governor (May 22, 2024).
(Amends R.S. 32:461(A)(1) and (2), (B)(3), and (C); Repeals R.S. 32:461(B)(4))