Amendment #159 to H4100

Capping Commercial Fees

Representatives Jones of North Reading, Peterson of Grafton, Hill of Ipswich, Poirier of North Attleborough, deMacedo of Plymouth, Adams of Andover, Barrows of Mansfield, Bastien of Gardner, Beaton of Shrewsbury, Boldyga of Southwick, D'Emilia of Bridgewater, Diehl of Whitman, Fattman of Sutton, Ferguson of Holden, Frost of Auburn, Gifford of Wareham, Harrington of Groton, Howitt of Seekonk, Humason of Westfield, Hunt of Sandwich, Kuros of Uxbridge, Levy of Marlborough, Lombardo of Billerica, Lyons of Andover, O'Connell of Taunton, Ross of Attleboro, Smola of Palmer, Vieira of Falmouth, Webster of Pembroke, Winslow of Norfolk, Wong of Saugus, Durant of Spencer and Orrall of Lakeville move to amend the bill by inserting, after section xx, the following section:—

“SECTION XX.  Section 5 of chapter 90 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2010 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsections:

(i)Notwithstanding any general or specific law to the contrary, the registrar shall not increase any individual fee by more than 2.5 per cent in a calendar year.

(j) The registrar shall offer a discount for any person registering 5 or more units in a calendar year.  For the purposes of this section, a unit shall include: any vehicle subject to a commercial normal, commercial reserved, commercial, vanity, snow removal, hearse, limited use, auto home normal, auto home reserved,  auto home vanity, bus normal, bus reserved, bus vanity, livery normal, livery limited use, livery reserved, livery vanity, semi trailer normal, semi trailer reserved, trailer normal, trailer reserved, taxi normal, taxi limited used, taxi reserved, or van pool normal registration.  This discount shall be in an amount of no less than 10 per cent of each registration fee that such person would otherwise incur.

(k) The registrar shall issue a report to the legislature within 90 days of the acceptance of this act.  This report shall offer recommendations to reduce the cost of operating a commercial vehicle or unit in Massachusetts in order to promote competition with neighboring states.  This report shall be submitted to the chairs of the joint committee on transportation.”