LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE
74th Regular Session
April 4, 1995
TO: Honorable Keith Oakley, Chair IN RE: House Bill No. 2261
Committee on Public Safety By: Conley
House of Representatives
Austin, Texas
FROM: John Keel, Director
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No.
2261 (relating to the authority of political subdivisions to
contract with the Department of Public Safety to assist in the
enforcement of outstanding warrants of arrest for the failure to
appear for certain traffic offenses, and authorizing the
department to contract with a private vendor to facilitate such
contracts) this office has determined the following:
The bill would authorize the Department of Public Safety to
contract with city and county political subdivisions for denial
of renewal of a persons driver's license for failure to appear
for certain traffic offenses.
The bill would also establish an assessment of a fee of $30 for
each violation for which the defendant failed to appear. Ten
dollars would be retained to the county and $20 would be sent to
the state. The bill would dedicate $10 of each fee to the
Department of Public Safety and the other $10 would be deposited
to the credit of the general revenue fund.
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 Probable Revenue Probable Revenue
Year Out of Gain to Gain to the
General Revenue General Revenue
Fund 001 General Revenue Fund 001
Fund 001 Dedicated to the
Non-Dedicated Department of
Public Safety
1996 $1,983,968 $1,940,000 $1,940,000
1997 1,913,069 2,190,000 2,190,000
1998 1,913,069 2,190,000 2,190,000
1999 1,913,069 2,190,000 2,190,000
2000 1,913,069 2,190,000 2,190,000
Fiscal Probable Change in
Year Revenue Number of State
Gain to Employees from
Counties FY 1995
1996 $1,940,000 51.0
1997 2,190,000 51.0
1998 2,190,000 51.0
1999 2,190,000 51.0
2000 2,190,000 51.0
Similar annual fiscal implications would continue as long as the
provisions of the bill are in effect.
Source: Comptroller of Public Accounts, Department of Public
Safety
LBB Staff: JK, BL, RR