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Read. Follow. Verify.North Dakota HB 1382 Raises Fuel Taxes, Vehicle Road Fees, and Creates New Local Road Fund
Last action · April 25, 2025: Second reading, failed to pass, yeas 0 nays 45Sponsors: Rep. Hagert, Jared C. and 11 others
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What This Bill Proposed
House Bill 1382 raises the state motor vehicle fuel and taxes from 23 to 26 cents per gallon starting June 30, 2025, while increasing annual road use fees for electric and hybrid vehicles. It establishes a new city, county, and township road fund supported by 3 cents per gallon of the fuel tax collections to distribute dedicated infrastructure money to local governments.
Motorists across North Dakota face higher fuel taxes and vehicle registration fees, while local governments receive dedicated state distributions for road construction and maintenance.
- North Dakota's highway tax distribution fund collects and allocates state motor vehicle registration fees and fuel taxes to state, county, and municipal road projects. 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 vehicle owners
Motor vehicle owners face a 3-cent per gallon increase in motor vehicle and special fuel taxes.
Electric and hybrid vehicle owners
Owners of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles must pay higher annual road use fees upon vehicle registration.
Counties, cities, and townships
Local governments receive dedicated monthly allocations and distributions from the newly established road fund for local road infrastructure.
Key Facts
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Frequently Asked Questions
What happens to the registration fees for electric vehicles?
Where does the money in the newly created city, county, and township road fund come from?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Failed in the Senate.
Procedural history
19 actions- Apr 25, 2025SenateSecond reading, failed to pass, yeas 0 nays 45
- Apr 25, 2025SenateCommitteeAmendment adopted, placed on calendar
- Apr 24, 2025SenateCommitteeReported back amended, do not pass, placed on calendar 6 0 0
- Mar 24, 2025SenateCommitteeCommittee Hearing 09:00
- Feb 20, 2025SenateIntroducedIntroduced, first reading, referred Finance and Taxation Committee
- Feb 20, 2025SenateReceived from House
Show 13 earlier actions
- Feb 19, 2025HouseFloorSecond reading, passed, yeas 58 nays 35
- Feb 17, 2025HouseCommitteeReported back, do pass, place on calendar 13 7 3
- Feb 13, 2025HouseRereferred to Appropriations
- Feb 13, 2025HouseReconsidered
- Feb 13, 2025HouseFloorSecond reading, passed, yeas 53 nays 32
- Feb 13, 2025HouseReconsidered
- Feb 13, 2025HouseSecond reading, failed, lacks constitutional majority yeas 46 nays 40
- Feb 12, 2025HouseCommitteeAmendment adopted, placed on calendar
- Feb 11, 2025HouseCommitteeReported back amended, do pass, amendment placed on calendar 8 5 1
- Feb 5, 2025HouseCommitteeCommittee Hearing 10:00
- Jan 16, 2025HouseRereferred to Finance and Taxation
- Jan 16, 2025HouseCommitteeRequest return from committee
- Jan 13, 2025HouseIntroducedIntroduced, first reading, referred Transportation Committee
Version history
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Creation of Dedicated Local Road Fund from Fuel Tax
The measure carves out a specific 3-cent portion of fuel tax collections into a newly established state treasury fund specifically for city, county, and township road projects.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 75)
- Controversy65Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz40Current news / social attention level
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