HB 263 Utah House · 2026 General Session

Heavy Duty Vehicle Amendments

HB 263 requires a registration fee for heavy duty vehicles (over 14,000 pounds gross weight) with a 2009 or older model year, excluding farm tractors and trucks. The fee revenue must be deposited into Utah's Environmental Mitigation and Response Fund. This bill updates vehicle registration codes to establish the fee and directs its funding source, with no new money appropriated. It directly affects owners of older heavy commercial vehicles registered in Utah.
Bill status passed 4 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2026
Committee Review
Feb 2026
House Passage
Feb 2026
Senate Passage
Feb 2026
Governor
Introduced Jan 20, 2026 Last action Mar 7, 2026
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What changed between versions

Amended 2/9/2026 10:02:135 Substitute #1 · 3 edits
MINOR
The bill was revised to change where the heavy duty vehicle emissions fee revenue is deposited, moving it from the Environmental Mitigation and Response Fund to the Transportation Fund. The substitute version also removed the repeal of Section 41-1a-1201, which governs general fee disposition, and simplified the bill to only enact Section 41-1a-1226. This change affects how revenue from the $175 fee on older heavy duty vehicles is used by the state.
Scope change
The bill's scope was narrowed from amending multiple sections of the Utah Code to only enacting a single new section (41-1a-1226), while removing the repeal of existing fee disposition rules.
FISCAL

Revenue from the heavy duty emissions compliance fee is now deposited into the Transportation Fund instead of the Environmental Mitigation and Response Fund.

REQUIREMENT

The repeal of Section 41-1a-1201, which governed how various vehicle fees are deposited into different state funds, was removed from the bill.

TECHNICAL

The bill was streamlined to focus solely on enacting the new heavy duty emissions fee section rather than amending multiple existing code sections.

Floor votes · House Feb 18, 2026

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
39
Key actions
5
Committee
5
Amendments
2
Feb 23, 2026
Upper · Passed
Senate/ committee report favorable [Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee]
upper
Feb 23, 2026
Upper · Passed
Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation [Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee]
upper
Feb 20, 2026
Committee
Senate/ to standing committee [Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee]
upper
Feb 19, 2026
Introduced
Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
upper
Feb 18, 2026
Upper · Passed
House/ passed 3rd reading
upper
Feb 6, 2026
Lower · Passed
House/ comm rpt/ amended [House Transportation Committee]
lower
Feb 5, 2026
Lower · Passed
House Comm - Favorable Recommendation [House Transportation Committee]
lower
Feb 5, 2026
Introduced
House Comm - Amendment Recommendation [House Transportation Committee]
lower
Jan 27, 2026
Committee
House/ to standing committee [House Transportation Committee]
lower
Jan 20, 2026
Introduced
House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
lower
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor

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