HB 1200Bureau of motor vehicles.

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This bill fundamentally restructures Indiana's motor vehicle regulatory framework through three major changes: eliminating supplemental registration fees for electric and hybrid vehicles, enhancing commercial driver licensing standards with federal compliance requirements, and granting new authority for dynamic speed limit management. The bill removes the $150 annual supplemental fee for electric vehicles and the $50 fee for hybrid vehicles, along with their definitions and inflation-adjustment mechanisms, eliminating an entire fee category that previously funded local road infrastructure. New commercial driver licensing provisions require English-language skills testing, prohibit businesses from training ineligible drivers with $50,000-per-violation civil penalties, authorize nondomiciled CDLs for out-of-state drivers working for Indiana carriers, and allow license revocation based on federal agency information about legal status. The bill also grants INDOT authority to implement variable speed limits based on weather and safety conditions without traffic studies on certain urban roads, and to set 20 mph minimums on minor collector and local roads within urban districts.