HB1832 – Creating a program for a road use fee which vehicle owners could choose to pay instead of the gas tax.
Prime Sponsor – Representative Fey (D; 30th District; Tacoma) (Co-Sponsors Mena, Doglio, and Ramel – Ds)
Current status – Referred to the House Committee on Transportation, and had a hearing there at 1:30 PM on Tuesday February 21st; continued to noon on Thursday February 23rd.
Next step would be – Action by the committee.
Legislative tracking page for the bill.

Summary –
The bill would have the Department of Licensing create a program for a road use fee of 2.5¢/mile which the owners of plugin vehicles under 10,000 pounds could choose to pay instead of the gas tax, beginning in 2030. The bill would waive the $175 in additional registration fees those owners currently pay, for vehicles in the program. The annual road use fee would be reduced by the DOT’s estimate of any gas tax a plug-in hybrid paid during the year, and would be limited to the amount of the waived additional registration fees any of these vehicles would have been subject to if they were not in the program.

Owners would be able to choose between reporting miles driven by submitting periodic odometer readings or using one or more means of automated reporting the Department would develop. (The State Transportation Commission and the Department  would explore and report on the possibility of having reporting mechanisms drivers could choose to use built into vehicles by manufacturers.) The bill has various provisions for limiting the collection of information to what’s necessary to determine the fee, requiring the owner’s specific consent, providing data security, and limiting public disclosure of location information.