LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          April 18, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Debra Danburg, Chair         IN RE:  House BillNo. 1382,
         Committee on Elections                               as amended
         House of Representatives                       By: Oakley
         Austin, Texas








FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No.
1382 (Relating to allowing a person who will be 18 years of age
before the general election for state and county officers to vote
in the preceding primary elections.) this office has determined
the following:

The bill would make no appropriation but could provide the legal
basis for an appropriation of funds to implement the provisions
of the bill.

The bill would add Section 172.005 to the Election Code to allow
persons to vote in the primary election if they will be 18 years
of age or older by the first day of the period for early voting
by personal appearance in the subsequent general election for
state and county officers.  The Secretary of State is charged
with prescribing procedures necessary to implement the new
section in consultation with the chairs of the parties required
to make nominations by primary election.

County voter registrars would be responsible for implementing the
new statute.  Voter registrars or elections administrators would
probably bear the cost of reprogramming their systems to reflect
the new class of voters, along with costs of maintaining a
separate list of voters eligible for the primary, but for no
other elections until the general election.

The bill would require a one-time change to the voter
registration application, to include information on a person's    




ability to vote in a primary election if the person will be 18 
years old by the beginning of early voting by personal appearance
for the general election.  The Secretary of State would also have
to reprogram the current on-line system to handle the new class
of voters.

The bill would take effect on the date on which the
constitutional amendment authorizing certain persons under the
age of 18 to vote in a primary election takes effect.

The probable fiscal implication of implementing the provisions of
the bill during each of the first  five years following passage
is estimated as follows:



            Fiscal  Probable Cost Out 
             Year      of  General    
                     Revenue Fund 001 
                                      
          1996                 $91,200
          1997                       0
                                      
          1998                       0
                                      
          1999                       0
          2000                       0
                                      
                                      
                                      
       Similar annual fiscal implications would continue as long as the
provisions of the bill are in effect.

The fiscal implication to  units of local government cannot be
determined.


Source:   Secretary of State
          LBB Staff: JK, BR, RR