A bill advanced Thursday that includes five years of automatic gas tax hikes and a new $250 fee on electric and other zero emission vehicles to reauthorize the state Transportation Trust Fund was released by the Assembly Appropriations Committee Thursday. The 5 to 4 vote along party lines to release the bill, A4011, came after an hour of testimony and objections Thursday afternoon. A companion bill in the state senate cleared the body’s appropriations committee on March 11 by a 9-4 vote. The bill proposes changing the gas tax formula in fiscal year 2025, which starts on July 1, to raise $2.3 b…