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Read. Follow. Verify.Utah SB 247 adjusts minimum average rack price floors for motor fuel tax calculations
Last action · March 6, 2026: Senate/ filedSponsors: Emily Buss and 1 other
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What This Bill Proposed
This bill amends the minimum average rack price of motor fuel for purposes of calculating fuel tax rates.
The change alters the baseline floor used to compute fuel tax rates, which directly affects how state transportation revenues are calculated and collected from motor fuel distributors and consumers.
- State motor fuel taxes in Utah are levied on a percentage basis of the statewide average rack price of regular unleaded gasoline, with revenues directed primarily to the Transportation Fund. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
motor fuel distributors and retail dealers
Distributors and retail dealers are subject to the tax rates calculated using the newly adjusted minimum rack price floors and maximum caps.
Transportation Fund recipients
Revenues deposited into the Transportation Fund are affected by changes to the motor fuel tax rate calculations and minimum price floors.
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This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · on the Senate floor.
Procedural history
26 actions- Mar 6, 2026SenateSenate/ filed
- Mar 6, 2026SenateSenate/ strike enacting clause
- Mar 3, 2026SenateSenate/ filed
- Mar 3, 2026SenateSenate/ failed
- Mar 3, 2026SenateSenate/ uncircled
- Mar 3, 2026SenateSenate/ circled
Show 20 earlier actions
- Mar 3, 2026SenateSenate/ floor amendment
- Mar 3, 2026SenateSenate/ uncircled
- Feb 23, 2026SenateSenate/ circled
- Feb 23, 2026SenateSenate/ 2nd reading
- Feb 12, 2026ReleasedLFA/ fiscal note publicly available for SB0247
- Feb 12, 2026SenateSenate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- Feb 12, 2026SenateSenate/ comm rpt/ amended
- Feb 11, 2026Version SponsorLFA/ fiscal note sent to sponsor for SB0247
- Feb 11, 2026SenateSenate Comm - Favorable Recommendation
- Feb 11, 2026SenateSenate Comm - Amendment Recommendation
- Feb 6, 2026SenateCommitteeSenate/ to standing committee
- Feb 5, 2026SenateSenate/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- Feb 5, 2026ReleasedLFA/ fiscal note publicly available for SB0247
- Feb 5, 2026Version SponsorLFA/ fiscal note sent to sponsor for SB0247
- Feb 4, 2026SenateIntroducedSenate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- Feb 4, 2026SenateSenate/ received bill from Legislative Research
- Feb 4, 2026Legislative Fiscal AgencyLFA/ bill sent to agencies for fiscal input for SB0247
- Feb 4, 2026Legislative Fiscal AnalystLFA/ bill assigned to staff for fiscal analysis for SB0247
- Feb 4, 2026Legislative Research and General CounselNumbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- Feb 4, 2026Legislative Research and General CounselBill Numbered but not Distributed
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Introduction of Motor Fuel Rack Price Floors
The bill establishes explicit statutory minimum price floors starting in 2027 and annual CPI indexing starting in 2028 for calculating motor fuel tax rates.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 60)
- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz20Current news / social attention level
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