Require electric vehicle owners and other highway users to pay their share for road use and create a new Highway Trust Fund revenue stream.

The bill also strengthens the Highway Trust Fund by ensuring all highway users pay their share for the use and improvement of the nation’s roads. As a result, the BUILD America 250 Act injects the Highway Trust Fund with its first new stream of revenue for infrastructure in over three decades. ... the BUILD America 250 Act ensures that electric vehicle owners begin paying their fair share for the use of our roads.

The bill would make EV owners and other highway users contribute to road funding and add a new Highway Trust Fund revenue stream.

Graves Introduces Bipartisan, Five-Year Surface Transportation Reauthorization – the BUILD America 250 Act | Congressman Sam Graves | Representing the 6th District of Missouri
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The bill also strengthens the Highway Trust Fund by ensuring all highway users pay their share for the use and improvement of the nation’s roads. As a result, the BUILD America 250 Act injects the Highway Trust Fund with its first new stream of revenue for infrastructure in over three decades.

The page says the BUILD America 250 Act would make highway users pay their share and create a new Highway Trust Fund revenue stream.

Surface Transportation Reauthorization | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
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Section 1129 of the bill imposes annual registration fees of $130 for a covered electric vehicle and $35 for a covered plug-in hybrid vehicle, with collection through state registration and remittance into the Highway Trust Fund.

The drafted bill directly creates a federal EV and plug-in hybrid fee and routes the proceeds to the Highway Trust Fund, matching the promise in substance but not yet as enacted law.

partial same_term A for effort

build_america_250_act_bill_text.pdf
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The committee approved H.R. 8870 after a 14-hour markup and said the bill would inject the Highway Trust Fund with its first new stream of revenue in over three decades; Graves said he looked forward to moving it on the House floor.

Committee approval is a concrete legislative step toward the promised user-pays revenue stream, but the measure was still not final law.

partial same_term A for effort

T&I Committee Approves BUILD America 250 Act | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
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House-passed H.R. 1 included section 100003, directing FHWA to impose annual registration fees of $250 on covered electric vehicles and $100 on covered hybrid vehicles, with state collection and remittance. Section 100004 said amounts accrued under that new section would be deposited into the Highway Trust Fund.

The House advanced a concrete EV/hybrid road-use fee and Highway Trust Fund deposit mechanism in 2025, but this was only a House-passed version, not enacted language.

partial same_term A for effort

H.R. 1 Engrossed in House - One Big Beautiful Bill Act
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GovInfo lists H.R. 1 as Public Law 119-21, approved July 4, 2025. The enacted law's cited 23 U.S.C. provisions include sections 177, 178, and 179, but not the House-passed new section 180 registration fee; searches of the official enacted text found no registration-fee or covered-electric-vehicle language.

The 2025 reconciliation vehicle that once contained EV/hybrid fees became law without that fee, so that route did not fulfill the promised new Highway Trust Fund revenue stream.

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Public Law 119-21 - H.R. 1 Reconciliation Act
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The committee announcement said Graves and Larsen released the BUILD America 250 Act, which would strengthen the Highway Trust Fund by ensuring highway users pay their share and would create the Trust Fund's first new infrastructure revenue stream in over three decades. Graves said the bill ensures electric vehicle owners begin paying their fair share for road use.

Graves publicly advanced a bipartisan surface transportation bill matching the promise: EV owners and other users paying into a new Highway Trust Fund revenue stream.

partial same_term A for effort

Graves & Larsen Announce Deal on Bipartisan, Five-Year Surface Transportation Reauthorization – the BUILD America 250 Act | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
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GovInfo identifies H.R. 8870 as introduced in the House on May 19, 2026 by Sam Graves with bipartisan cosponsors and referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

Official bill metadata confirms Graves personally introduced the BUILD America 250 Act during the relevant House term.

partial same_term A for effort

H.R. 8870 (IH) - Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development for America's 250th Act
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Section 1129 of H.R. 8870 would add a registration fee on motor vehicles. It directs FHWA to impose $130 per year on covered electric vehicles and $35 per year on covered plug-in hybrid vehicles, with state collection and monthly remittance.

The introduced bill substantively matches the promise by creating federal EV and plug-in hybrid road-use fees.

partial same_term A for effort

H.R. 8870 Introduced in House - BUILD America 250 Act
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Section 1129 states FHWA shall impose annual fees of $130 for covered electric vehicles and $35 for covered plug-in hybrid vehicles. It also says collected registration fees should be deposited into the Highway Trust Fund and divided between Trust Fund accounts like post-1982 excise taxes.

Committee bill text directly creates the promised user-pays fee structure and Highway Trust Fund revenue destination, but it is proposed legislation rather than enacted law.

partial same_term A for effort

build_america_250_act_bill_text.pdf
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The committee announced H.R. 8870's formal House introduction, named Graves as an introducer, scheduled committee markup, and said the bill would inject the Highway Trust Fund with its first new revenue stream in over three decades.

Graves moved from proposal to formal introduction and markup scheduling, a concrete legislative step but not final enactment.

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T&I Committee Leaders Introduce the BUILD America 250 Act
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The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee markup page states the committee approved the Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R. 8870, the BUILD America 250 Act, and links to official vote results.

The bill advanced through committee markup, showing real legislative progress toward the promised fee and revenue stream.

partial same_term A for effort

Full Committee Markup (May 21, 2026)
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The House Committee Repository records that Chairman Graves offered the substitute to H.R. 8870, it was agreed to by voice vote as amended, and the bill was ordered favorably reported to the House by a 62-2 recorded vote.

Official House records show Graves advanced the bill and secured committee reporting, but the record still shows committee action rather than enactment.

partial same_term A for effort

H.R. 8870, Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development for America's 250th Act (BUILD America 250 Act); and other matters cleared for consideration | Committee Repository | U.S. House of Representatives
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The committee said it approved H.R. 8870 after a 14-hour markup and described the bill as creating the Highway Trust Fund's first new revenue stream in over three decades. Graves said he looked forward to moving the bill on the House floor and working with the Senate before the September 30 deadline.

Committee approval supports a partial outcome: Graves advanced a bill matching the promise, but his own statement confirms it still required House floor and Senate action.

partial same_term A for effort

T&I Committee Approves BUILD America 250 Act | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
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