Eliminating the authority of municipalities and counties to impose a local motor vehicle registration fee

What it would have done

Summary by the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

Under current law, any city, village, or town (municipality) or county may, by ordinance, impose an annual motor vehicle registration fee on most automobiles and light-duty trucks customarily kept in the municipality or county. The Department of Transportation (DOT) collects this local registration fee, which is in addition to the state registration fee, at the time DOT collects the state registration fee and remits the local registration fee, minus administrative costs of collection, to the applicable municipality or county. The local registration fee may only be used by a municipality or county for transportation purposes.

This bill eliminates, after a phase-out period, the authority of municipalities and counties to impose the local registration fee. After the bill becomes effective, a municipality or county cannot impose a new local registration fee or modify an existing local registration fee. For those municipalities and counties that already have a local registration fee when the bill becomes effective, collection of the fee must cease within about 18 months after the bill's effective date and the authority to impose the fee is thereafter terminated.

Who's behind it

8 lawmakers are its authors⁠. All 8 are Republicans.

2 more lawmakers signed on in support⁠.

What it would cost

State agencies filed a cost estimate. Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.

• Fiscal Estimate From DOR
• Fiscal Estimate From DOT