Public Comment

Arizona SCR 1004, transmitted from the 2025 legislative session for voter consideration, proposes a constitutional prohibition on state or local taxes or fees based on vehicle miles traveled. It would also prohibit laws or rules monitoring or limiting a person’s vehicle miles unless that person voluntarily consents, with exceptions including certain interstate commercial-vehicle fuel-tax or registration agreements. The proposal links two distinct issues—future road-funding mechanisms and privacy around travel data—into one constitutional rule. A mileage tax could someday replace declining fuel-tax revenue, but it can also require tracking information people reasonably consider private. Arizona should separate how roads are funded from how much travel data government is allowed to collect.

Should Arizona permanently block mileage-based taxes and nonconsensual travel monitoring?

Overall results

1
63% support · excluded by 2%
7

A constitutional ban prevents governments from turning every vehicle into a recurring source of both behavioral data and new mileage taxes.

7

Explicit interstate-commercial exceptions help avoid disrupting existing multistate truck-tax and registration systems.

2
48% support · excluded by 6%
7

Protecting privacy should not depend on whether the government eventually attaches a tax or mileage limit to the data.

3
46% support · excluded by 8%
7

Transportation funding needs may change as vehicles use less gasoline, and the Constitution should not eliminate a possible future user-fee system.

4
44% support · excluded by 4%
7

A mileage charge need not become a location-surveillance system if the law permits odometer-based or privacy-preserving verification.

7

Drivers should know exactly what data is collected and should not have to transmit a detailed travel history merely to pay for roads.

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