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