EHB 1964 — Enhancing prorate and fuel tax collections by improving taxpayer compliance, providing additional enforcement mechanisms, and protecting confidential taxpayer information.

What this bill does

Grants the Department of Licensing (DOL) broad authority to enforce fuel tax requirements. Requires the DOL to establish a prorate and fuel tax discovery team to detect and investigate fuel tax and proportional registration violations, with authority to seek search warrants, issue subpoenas, perform inspections, and investigate and assess alleged civil violations. Makes a person other than a licensee who is engaged in the business of selling, purchasing, distributing, storing, transporting, or delivering fuel, and who fails to submit required tax reports to the DOL, subject to civil and criminal penalties. Requires a fuel licensee who has a fuel license revoked to submit an application for reinstatement, and to resolve all outstanding violations, non-compliance items, and debts owed, prior to issuance of a new license. Exempts fuel tax reports submitted to the DOL from public inspection and copying.

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Floor votes

• House — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · January 29, 2024
  92 yea · 4 nay · 2 not voting
• Senate — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 6, 2024
  48 yea · 1 nay

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