Bill Text - HB570 (2017)

Relative to car and truck rental agency fleet vehicle registration.


Revision: Jan. 25, 2017, 3:29 p.m.

HB 570-FN - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2017 SESSION

17-0542

10/03

 

HOUSE BILL 570-FN

 

AN ACT relative to car and truck rental agency fleet vehicle registration.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Spillane, Rock. 2

 

COMMITTEE: Transportation

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill provides that motor vehicles in rental fleets of car and truck rental businesses shall pay a state registration fee of 1/3 of regular motor vehicle registrations.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

17-0542

10/03

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

 

AN ACT relative to car and truck rental agency fleet vehicle registration.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  New Subparagraph; Registration of Motor Vehicles; Rental Fleets.  Amend RSA 261:141, III by inserting after subparagraph (dd) the following new subparagraph:

(ee)  For motor vehicles in rental fleets owned by a person engaged in the business of renting such vehicles, as described in Article XI of the international registration plan, RSA 260:75, the registration fee shall be 1/3 of the registration fee determined by the corresponding weight chart specified in subparagraph (g).

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2017.

 

LBAO

17-0542

1/18/17

 

HB 570-FN- FISCAL NOTE

as introduced

 

AN ACT relative to car and truck rental agency fleet vehicle registration.

 

FISCAL IMPACT:      [ X ] State              [    ] County               [ X ] Local              [    ] None

 

 

 

Estimated Increase / (Decrease)

STATE:

FY 2018

FY 2019

FY 2020

FY 2021

   Appropriation

$0

$0

$0

$0

   Revenue

Indeterminable Decrease

Indeterminable Decrease

Indeterminable Decrease

Indeterminable Decrease

   Expenditures

Indeterminable Increase

Indeterminable Decrease

Indeterminable Decrease

Indeterminable Decrease

Funding Source:

  [    ] General            [    ] Education            [    ] Highway           [ X ] Restricted Cost of Collections*

*Pursuant to Part II, article 6-a of the New Hampshire constitution, any costs associated with the collection and administration of Highway Funds by the Department of Safety shall be deducted by the Department before such funds are credited to the Highway Fund as unrestricted revenue.

 

LOCAL:

 

 

 

 

   Revenue

$0

Indeterminable Decrease

Indeterminable Decrease

Indeterminable Decrease

   Expenditures

Indeterminable Increase

$0

$0

$0

 

METHODOLOGY:

This bill lowers registration fees for motor vehicles in car and truck rental businesses to 1/3 of the registration fee determined by the corresponding weight chart under RSA 260:141.  While the Department of Safety assumes municipal permit fees would remain unchanged under the proposed legislation, it is unable to estimate costs associated with system programming changes in FY 2018  to the State and municipalities.  However, pursuant to RSA 235:23, not less than 12 percent of the total motor vehicle fee revenue collected in the previous year is distributed to municipalities by the Department of Transportation as highway block grants.  Therefore, this bill would result in an indeterminable decrease in State highway fund expenditures and local revenues each year beginning in FY 2019.

 

AGENCIES CONTACTED:

Department of Safety