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Freedom to Move

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SCR 1004 - Taxation Constitutional Amendment

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Background

Why This Matters

Freedom to Move (SCR1004/HCR2035) will make Arizona the first state in the nation to proactively prohibit the government from tracking, taxing, or limiting your vehicle miles traveled (VMT). As of 2025, 24 states have active VMT programs and 37 have conducted research or joined regional coalitions testing these policies. VMT programs track how many miles residents drive — and in some states, exactly where — then charge per-mile fees. Oregon has run one since 2015; Utah uses an OBD plug-in and smartphone app with location data; Hawaii's program will be mandatory for EVs by 2028. If voters approve Freedom to Move, Arizona's constitution will permanently block any VMT tax, tracking system, or mileage-based restriction — preventing what every other state currently allows.

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Key Points:
  • ✓The proposal would amend the Arizona Constitution to ban state and local governments from imposing any tax or fee based on miles driven, or from monitoring or limiting an individual's vehicle miles traveled.
  • ✓VMT programs charge drivers a per-mile fee for use of public roads. Rates can vary based on vehicle weight or time and location of travel, meaning the government would need to know not just how far you drove, but potentially when and where.
  • ✓Oregon was the first state to begin research into VMT taxes in 2001 and the first to implement a program in 2015. Four states have now enacted active programs: Oregon, Utah, Virginia, and Hawaii.
  • ✓These programs are not as limited as they may sound. Utah tracks EV drivers using an OBD plug-in device and a smartphone app which includes location data. Virginia's program is tracked with or without GPS. Oregon's system offers GPS as one of its options.
  • ✓As of 2025, 37 states have conducted research or joined regional coalitions testing VMT policies, and 24 states currently have either a pilot program or an active program. The spread of these programs has been rapid.
  • ✓Only Hawaii currently has a mandatory VMT program, but it only became mandatory through legislation, after years of "voluntary" pilots laying the groundwork. Hawaii's program requires electric vehicles to participate by 2028 and light vehicles by 2033.
  • ✓Surveys of drivers in pilot programs consistently ranked privacy and data security as top concerns. A GPS-based system doesn't just count miles. It records a detailed log of everywhere you've been.
  • ✓California’s Road Charge pilot (2024-26) tested systems that tracked drivers through smartphone apps, plug-in devices, and vehicle telematics capable of recording mileage and trip data to calculate per-mile driving charges.
  • ✓California’s SANDAG Regional Plan proposed charging drivers four cents per mile and projected residents would need to drive significantly less to meet state-imposed climate targets tied to reducing vehicle use.
  • ✓Massachusetts’ “Freedom to Move Act” would require the state to set targets for reducing how much residents drive and create government-directed plans to curb vehicle dependence using statewide mileage data.
  • ✓No other state constitution currently limits the ability of government to impose VMT taxes or restrict how far residents can drive. If voters approve the measure, Arizona would be the first.
Sample Argument

Vote YES on Prop XXX — the Freedom to Move Act.

A mileage tax means the government tracks every mile you drive. GPS devices, smartphone apps, odometer reporting — logging every trip to work, the doctor, church, your kid's school. That data sits in a government database.

Twenty-four states already have VMT programs. The federal infrastructure law authorized pilot programs nationwide. If Arizona doesn't act, Congress could mandate participation and we'd have no legal shield.

A per-mile tax punishes the people who can least afford it — rural families, suburban commuters, tradespeople whose trucks are their livelihood. It raises the cost of every product on every shelf, because every one of them got there by truck.

Arizona was built by people who drove long distances because they wanted space, independence, and the freedom to live on their own terms. The Freedom to Move Act puts that protection in the Constitution, where only voters can undo it.

Vote YES on Prop XXX. Keep driving free.

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