HB217 Summary

• Amends Alabama Code Sections 40-12-240 and 40-12-248 regarding truck tractor license taxes and registration fees for farmers transporting farm products.

• Expands the farmer definition to include individuals, partnerships, cooperative corporations, and other entities actively engaged in agriculture or agricultural activities as defined in Section 41-14-51(1).

• Changes the limitation allowing farmers to obtain reduced-rate tags from only one truck tractor to four truck tractors, with each additional truck tractor subject to regular license tax and registration fees based on gross vehicle weight.

• Maintains reduced annual license tax and registration fee caps for qualified farm truck tractors: $30 maximum (under 30,000 pounds), $85 maximum (30,001-42,000 pounds), and $250 maximum (80,001 pounds or over).

• Becomes effective immediately upon passage and gubernatorial approval or upon becoming law.