The Alabama House of Representatives on Friday approved a 10-cent-a-gallon increase in the state's gas tax and a set of fees for electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles.

The vote was a major victory for supporters of the legislation, who say the increased revenue is needed to get the state's roads and bridges on a regular schedule of repair. The legislation moves up to the Senate.

The vote was 84 to 20. In the Montgomery House delegation, Republican Reps. Reed Ingram and Pike Road and Dimitri Polizos of Montgomery voted for the measure, as did Democratic Reps. Kirk Hatcher, Thad McClammy and Tashina Morris, all of Montgomery.

"Every hard-working Alabamian will be impacted by this in the form of safer roads, bus routes, job opportunities, and first responders in moments of disaster or distress," said Rep. Bill Poole, R-Tuscaloosa, the sponsor of the bill. "It will affect my children. It will affect your children, and it will affect all the children in the state."

Gov. Kay Ivey, who called the legislature into special session on the issue earlier this week, praised the result.

"You look at the members of the vote, and you're going to see for the first time in a long time what a bipartisan effort can do to bring success to the people of Alabama," she said at a press conference after the vote.

Eighteen Republicans and two Democrats voted against the measure.

If approved by the Senate, the measure would increase the 18- cent-a-gallon tax on gasoline to 28 cents over the next three years. In 2023, the gas would be tied to an index of construction costs that would automatically adjust the tax every other year, though never more than 1 cent.

The bill would also impose a $200 annual fee on electric vehicles and a $100 fee on plug-in hybrid vehicles, which could be adjusted depending on the presence of federal taxes. Part of the money collected would fund a grant program for infrastructure for electric vehicles, such as charging stations, until 4 percent of all vehicle registrations (save trailers and semitrailers) were electric. At that point, the fees would drop to $150 a year and $75 a year, respectively.

About 67 percent of the money raised from the tax would go to the state for road and bridge projects, with 25 percent going to the counties and roughly 8 percent to municipalities. Separate legislation providing oversight of the spending of the money is also moving forward.

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"This is going to provide funding on every level of government," Poole said after the vote. "It's going to help us leverage federal dollars ... it’s just going to be a phenomenal asset and tool for every community."

The Legislative Services Agency estimates the new tax would bring in $194 million in additional revenue in 2020; $259 million in 2021 and $323 million in 2022.

Companion bills would establish oversight of the money spent, and authorize the state to borrow up to $150 million to pay for improvements to the Port of Mobile. Up to $11.7 million of new gas tax revenue could go to service bonds on the project each year. Poole said the money was needed to draw down a much larger pool of federal money for the project.

"The cost of doing nothing is not nothing," he said. "The cost of doing nothing is we will lose lives on the road. We will lose job opportunities."

Proponents of the legislation saw the House as the biggest obstacle to passage, but supporters were cautiously optimistic about passage before the House met Friday morning. During the early debate, some Democrats questioned whether the tax would fall hardest on the working poor.

"What I have a problem with is people who go to the pumps who only have two or three dollars to go to work," said Rep. Juandalynn Givan, D-Birmingham.

Rep. John Rogers, D-Birmingham, said the way the state-funded road and bridge construction was "wrong."

"I can't go back to Jefferson County with another tax on these folks," he said.

Rep. Tommy Hanes, R-Scottsboro, said it would hurt some of his constituents who commute to work. "It’s not unusual for someone to drive 80 miles one way to get to work," he said. "They’re trying to raise families. This will hurt people trying to scratch out a living."

The indexing also drew some opposition. Rep. Mike Holmes, R-Wetumpka, offered an amendment to pull the index out of the legislation, saying it would impose a generational burden on the state.

"I cannot sign on an inflationary thing that goes down to children (and) grandchildren down the line," he said.Poole argued that the index was not a "blank check" and insisted the index was key to the proposal.

"This is a critical, critical element of this proposal in my judgment," he said. "This is a principal part of it." The House tabled Holmes' amendment 68 to 26.

There was other pressure, said House Speaker Mac McCutcheon, R-Monrovia, after the vote.

"It did not come easy because there was a lot of pressure in this," he said. "We had a lot of new members in the House where we were concerned about their peace of mind on this issue, because it was a difficult issue."

Business and government groups have for years sought increases in the gas tax, the chief source of state money for road and bridge improvements. Supporters say the current levies can't keep up with current road and bridge needs in the state. Opponents have questioned the cost of current state maintenance and the potential spending of the funds.

The House adopted an amendment to the oversight bill requiring Alabama Department of Transportation projects to be ranked on an objective criteria. Amendments requiring minority outreach and representation, as well as one requiring a two-system method of paving to include both concrete and asphalt were also adopted.