LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          April 4, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Debra Danburg, Chair         IN RE:  House Bill No. 1382
         Committee on Elections                         By: Oakley
         House of Representatives
         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 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
                                      
                                      
                                      
       The fiscal implication to units of local government cannot be
determined.


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