LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE
74th Regular Session
April 12, 1995
TO: Honorable Clyde Alexander, Chair IN RE: House Bill No. 1954
Committee on Transportation By: Carter
House of Representatives
Austin, Texas
FROM: John Keel, Director
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No.
1954 (Relating to the creation of an emergency telephone call box
system for highway users in this state.) 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 the Department of Transportation to
establish a system of telephone emergency call boxes along
highways in the state that are numbered U.S. highways, part of a
national system of interstate and defense highways, or numbered
state highways. The bill would require that, when fully
implemented, the distance between two call boxes would be no more
than two miles. The Department would be required to establish the
program by January 1, 1996.
The bill would require a $1 dollar registration fee deposited to
the credit of a separate account in the State Highway Fund and
could only be used for the implementation or administration of
the emergency call box program.
The bill stipulates that money deposited in the State Highway
Fund for purposes established by the bill would be exempt from
Sections 403.094 and 403.095, Government Code.
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 Probable Revenue Probable Revenue
Year of State Highway Gain to State Gain to Local
Fund 006 Highway Fund 006 Government
1996 $11,667,579 $11,667,579 $3,485,121
1997 11,871,629 11,871,629 3,546,071
1998 12,071,444 12,071,444 3,605,756
1999 12,469,149 12,469,149 3,724,551
2000 12,649,714 12,649,714 3,778,486
Fiscal Change in
Year Number of State
Employees from
FY 1995
1996 4.0
1997 4.0
1998 4.0
1999 4.0
2000 4.0
Similar annual fiscal implications would continue as long as the
provisions of the bill are in effect.
Source: Comptroller of Public Accounts, Department of
Transportation
LBB Staff: JK, ML, DF