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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023)
HOUSE BILL 2315 By: Hilbert of the House
and
Gollihare of the Senate
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to revenue and taxation; amending 68
O.S. 2021, Sections 6504, 6506 and 6508 , which relate
to the Driving on Road Infrastructure with Vehicles
of Electricity Act of 2021; modifying provisions
related to determination of tax rate; modifying
reporting date for tax; modifying requirements with
respect to the Oklahoma Tax Commission ; eliminating
requirement for certain administrative rules; and
providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 68 O.S . 2021, Section 6504, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 6504. A. There is hereby imposed a tax of three cents
($0.03) per kilowatt hour or its equivalent, as determined by the
Oklahoma Tax Corporation Commission, on the electric current used to
charge or recharge the battery or batteries of an electric vehicle.
The tax shall be levied beginning January 1, 2024.
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B. The amount of tax prescribed or authorized by this section
shall not include any fees or charges associated with the method for
payment for the charging service, but shall be based only upon the
rate of tax and the electricity transferred during the charging
process.
C. The tax imposed pursuant to this section shall not be
applicable to electric vehicles charged at a private residence at
which the owner or occupant of the residence uses electric powe r
paid for by the owner or occupant of the residence which is suppl ied
to the residence by a regulated public utility, an electric
cooperative or other wholesale level of electric supply, wheth er or
not supplemented by electric power produced by the owner or occupant
using solar energy or other methods to provide electric power to the
residence.
D. The tax imposed pursuant to this section shall not be
applicable to electr ic vehicles charged at charging stations with a
charging capacity of less than fifty ( 50) kilowatts and charging
stations that do not require payment fo r use.
E. In order to determine an equivalent measurement as required
in subsection A of this section, the Oklahoma Tax Corporation
Commission shall promulgate rules that allow businesses, based on
the average cost that such business charged customers at the
business's charging stations in the preceding year, to charge the
tax on a percentage basis equivalent to the am ount of tax that would
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otherwise have been charged had the rate provided in subsection A of
this section been applied in the preceding year. The percentage
basis equivalent shall be recalculated annually in conjuncti on with
the Oklahoma Tax Corporation Commission. Businesses with multiple
charging station locations in the state shall be authorized t o
utilize the same percentage basis equivalent a t all such locations.
SECTION 2. AMENDATORY 68 O.S. 2021, Section 6506, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 6506. A. The tax imposed pursuant to the provisions of
Section 4 6503 of this act title shall be remitted monthly by each
charging station owner or operator. The tax shall b e remitted using
such forms as the Oklahoma Tax Commission may pr escribe for that
purpose.
B. The tax and any required report shall be filed with the Tax
Commission not later than the twentieth twenty-seventh day of the
month following the month during which the electric charging for an
electric vehicle occurred.
C. The charging station owner or op erator shall separately
state on any invoice or billing document provided to the customer
the amount of the tax imposed pur suant to Section 4 6503 of this act
title and shall not include the tax amount in the total amount
billed to the customer.
D. The provisions of this section shall not prohibit a charging
station owner or operator from imposing a fee or charge in addition
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to the kilowatt hour or other equivalent unit of mea surement for the
transfer of electric power to an electric vehicle.
E. Legacy chargers shal l be exempt from remitting the tax
levied in this section until November 1, 2041.
F. Public charging stations that have ne ver charged a fee for
their use shall be exempt from remitting the tax levied in this
section until November 1, 2041.
SECTION 3. AMENDATORY 68 O.S. 202 1, Section 6508, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 6508. A. Except for charging stations with a charging
capacity of less than fifty (50) kilowatts, and charging s tations
that do not require pay ment for use, all charging stations in
operation prior to the effective date of this act shall regist er
with the Oklahoma Tax Commission not later than January 31, 2024.
The Oklahoma Tax Commission shall provide or make avai lable updated
registration information to the Oklahoma Corpora tion Commission.
B. For a charging station which requires payment for its use
and begins operations for the first time on or after November 1,
2021, the charging station owner or operator shall register with the
Oklahoma Tax Commission not later than fift een (15) days after the
date as of which the first business operations at the station site
begin or by January 31, 2024, whichever is later.
C. Any public charging station for an electric vehic le
constructed or which begins operations for the first time o n or
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after November 1, 2021, shall use a metering system that is capab le
of imposing the cost for the charging service using a unit per
kilowatt hour or an equivalent measurement as determined by the Tax
Corporation Commission, such as time elapsed while charging and the
charging capacity of the charging station , or such as the process
described in subsection E of Section 1 6504 of this act title. The
metering system shall include a system by which an audit of the
electricity supplied t hrough the system may be perfo rmed to
determine the amount of electricity transferred to a customer and
the cost charged by the charging station owner or operator f or each
unit of electricity transferred.
D. The Oklahoma Tax Commission shall have the auth ority to
inspect the premises and equipment of any charging station owner or
operator to enforce compliance with the provisions of this section.
E. If a charging station owner or operator fails to remit the
tax as required by the provisions of this act, t he Oklahoma Tax
Commission shall begin proceedings to terminate the charging station
owner or operator license to do business for failure to remit in the
same manner as prescribed by law for failure to remit sales tax.
SECTION 4. This act shall become effective November 1, 2023.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS AND BUDGET, dated
02/23/2023 - DO PASS, As Coauthored.