A provision that would create new fees on electric and hybrid vehicles as part of the GOP’s megabill, which senators dropped from the current package, doesn’t appear to be dead quite yet — though it might end up tweaked.
House Transportation and Infrastructure Chair Sam Graves (R-Mo.) in an interview Tuesday said if the fees don’t make it into the final Senate version of the measure, he will attempt to put them back into the budget reconciliation legislation if the House gets the chance to make more changes.
The House-passed “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” would have created annual registration fees of $250 on EVs and $100 on hybrids, but the Senate Finance Committee didn’t include them in its slice of the domestic policy package, which has not yet been finalized.
A spokesperson for Graves, Justin Harclerode, in a statement said that “we will continue talking to the Senate” as the package moves through the process. Harclerode added that Graves will be “pursuing every avenue to fix the Highway Trust Fund, and that includes through EV user fees.”
