Model legislative language is a primary resource offered by ARTBA’s Transportation Investment Advocacy Center (TIAC) to assist lawmakers and advocates with introducing new transportation revenue sources in state legislatures. These reports provide draft statutory language, summarize the funding topic and existing legislation, and address best practices and challenges with implementing the revenue source.

Existing reports are housed on the TIAC website, transportationinvestment.org, and include:

  • Retail Delivery Fees: The retail delivery fee was enacted in Colorado to ensure delivery vehicles- which are often heavier, make frequent trips, and put additional wear and tear on roads and bridges- contribute to infrastructure maintenance and improvements. This report outlines model legislative language imposing a fee per online deliverable purchase to consumers. Read the report.
  • Transportation Network Company (TNC) Fees: Fees on Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) – businesses such as Uber and Lyft who offer on-demand rideshare services typically through a mobile application – are a way states and localities hav addressed the challenges of congestion and deterioration of transportation infrastreucture. This report creates legislative language imposing per-ride fees on TNCs. Read the report.
  • Road Usage Charges: Road usage charges—also referred to as Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT), or Mileage-Based User Fees (MBUF)—tax drivers by the miles driven, regardless of fuel consumed. Several states have enacted these programs on fuel-efficient and electric vehicles to ensure parity in road usage and taxes paid. This report creates model language legislation establishing a state-run, voluntary RUC program under which drivers elect to pay the mileage-based fee instead of annual fees or the state motor fuels tax. Read the Report.
  • Capturing Taxes from Electric Vehicles at the Charging Station: As states expand their electric vehicle charging infrastructure, several states have enacted legislation to levy a per kilowatt-hour excise tax on electricity used at public electric vehicle charging stations. The model legislative language establishes a per kilowatt-hour excise tax on electric power provided by a charging station operator or owner. Read the report.