LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE
74th Regular Session
April 26, 1995
TO: Honorable Edmund Kuempel, Chair IN RE: House BillNo. 1390,
Committee on Energy Resources as amended
House of Representatives By: Saunders
Austin, Texas
FROM: John Keel, Director
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No.
1390 (relating to requiring a quail stamp for hunting quail;
providing a penalty) 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 require a person hunting quail to possess a quail
stamp, but would exempt persons under age 17 and those hunting in
their county of residence from this requirement. The Parks and
Wildlife Department would issue the stamp, and set the fee at $7
or more. The Department would also be permitted to issue and set
an amount to be charged for a nonhunting edition of the stamp.
The bill would provide that an agent who sells the stamp be
permitted to retain fifty cents of the fee as a collection fee
for the hunting edition, and an amount set by Parks and Wildlife
for the nonhunting edition.
The bill would create the Quail Stamp Account as a separate
account in the General Revenue Fund. The bill would exempt the
Quail Stamp Account from loss of dedication. Money in the
account could only be spent for research, management and
protection of quail, or acquisition, lease, and development of
quail habitat on public land and development of private land for
quail habitat, with landowner consent and public access to the
land.
The bill would require the Parks and Wildlife Commission to
establish an advisory committee to assist the commission in
regulating the expenditures from the fund.
The Parks and Wildlife Department would incur printing costs of
approximately $17,000 per year.
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 Revenue Probable Cost Out
Year Gain to the of General
General Revenue Revenue Fund 001,
Fund 001, Quail Quail Stamp
Stamp Account Account
1996 $1,175,375 $17,000
1997 1,175,375 17,000
1998 1,175,375 17,000
1999 1,175,375 17,000
2000 1,175,375 17,000
Similar annual fiscal implications would continue as long as the
provisions of the bill are in effect.
No fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.
Source: Comptroller of Public Accounts, Parks and Wildlife
Department
LBB Staff: JK, PVT, DF