LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD Austin, Texas FISCAL NOTE 74th Regular Session February 20, 1995 TO: Honorable Don Henderson, Chair IN RE: Senate Bill No. 117 Committee on Jurisprudence By: Harris Senate Austin, Texas FROM: John Keel, Director In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on Senate Bill No. 117 (Relating to loss of a state professional license for failure to pay child support.) this office has determined the following: The bill would allow for revocation of professional and occupational licenses for failure to pay child support. Licensing agencies would be required to conduct administrative hearings to suspend licenses of delinquent child support obligors. The Office of the Attorney General did not estimate the gain to Child Support Retained Collections resulting from professional license revocation because the number of delinquent obligors who have professional licenses is undetermined at this time. According to Comptroller of Public Accounts estimates, if revocation and non-renewal of licenses were interpreted to include sales tax and mixed beverage tax permittees and other similar permittees currently collecting and remitting state tax revenue, there could be an indeterminate loss of state tax revenue. It is assumed that the Office of the Attorney General currently has adequate resources to implement the provisions of the bill. The fiscal implication to the State cannot be determined. No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated. Source: Office of the Attorney General, Comptroller of Public Accounts LBB Staff: JK, JC, RR