HEA 1104 Summary

• Creates new Chapter 29 in Indiana Code requiring the Department of Transportation to contract with a third party to study alternative transportation infrastructure funding mechanisms for up to 2 years.

• Study must examine funding options including: vehicle weight and mileage-based fees, damage-based fees by vehicle size, flat per-vehicle fees, adjustments to motor fuel taxes and special fuel taxes, and tolls.

• Study must analyze costs of maintaining state and local highways, roads, and streets; calculate per-unit revenue amounts needed; and evaluate privacy, ease of use, compliance, and collection costs for each mechanism.

• Study must evaluate effects on alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles, review similar studies from other jurisdictions, and analyze supporting technologies for each mechanism.

• Department must provide study results electronically by July 1 of each study year to the joint study committee on transportation, legislative council, and governor; may implement a voluntary pilot program based on study findings.