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[Damon Leonard (Office of Legislative Counsel)]: We're back. I'm sorry about that. We're back on Wednesday, March 18, back in house transportation. We'll be going to review the T bill in its form, starting particularly with the changes we'd asked for the mileage based user fee and the changes we'd asked around Drive Electric and well, I've not brought up that one yet. But the other pieces that we changed earlier today, if you can walk us through that. Our goal here is to get to as close as a final T bill so then people can be able to print it and have it and then do a final walk through. For the record, I'm Damon Leonard from the Office of Legislative Counsel. Pulling up the mileage based user fee proposal moment. We'll skip ahead to where we've made changes. So the first is on page seven. This is just a technical change. I had forgotten to no. This is the we've gotten rid of the this is not a technical change. Excuse me. We had gotten rid of the annual inflator in this section, so there's no longer a need for a subsection one and subsection two. So that's cleaned up in the inflator, which used to start after the end of this sentence is gone. The next change is a technical change. I'd forgotten to put a paragraph heading here. So this just provides that the mileage based user fee is in addition to any other fees and taxes. Subsection h is brand new. This provides for a review of the assessment amount. And I have run this by AOT, so I'll let them comment on it when I'm done. This provides that a person may, within fifteen days after the assessment, appeal the amount of the assessment. And I'm just going to say after an assessment. Well, I don't think we specifically say mailed in every instance. So after an assessment, appeal the amount of the assessment to the commissioner. Commissioner shall establish procedures for filing and hearing the appeals that are consistent with the provisions of 23 VSA 105 through 107, which sets out the general hearing authority of the commissioner and allows the commissioner to appoint a hearing officer, etcetera. The procedure shall include a process by which an appellant can resolve the dispute prior to the issuance of a final decision on the appeal. So that essentially allows the appellant to settle with the department if they figure out an amount that works without having to go through the whole appeal process. If it's okay with the vice chair, I'd yield to the agency just to let them comment.
[Agency of Transportation (AOT) representative]: I do. I think the agencies support this change. Never was our intent to create a long term process by which you obtain stay sensible here. Yeah. It is. Does that look good to everybody?
[Damon Leonard (Office of Legislative Counsel)]: Mhmm. Okay. Here, take your spot. Great. Next is the reef
[Timothy R. Corcoran II (Vice Chair)]: Representative Pouech. Sorry about that, we're gabbling out of the house right now to break into politics. So do you want to attend that? Okay.
[Damon Leonard (Office of Legislative Counsel)]: Yeah, if people guess we're
[Timothy R. Corcoran II (Vice Chair)]: temporarily adjourns. Okay.