LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          March 14, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Warren Chisum, Chair         IN RE:  Senate BillNo. 200,
          Committee on Environmental                          as engrossed
         Regulation                                     By: Armbrister
         House of Representatives
         Austin, Texas







FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on Senate Bill No.
200 (Relating to the alternative fuels program.) this office has
determined the following:

The bill would add a definition for alternative fuels that would
replace and expand the current statutory references that limit
conversion options to "compressed natural gas or other
alternative fuel."

The bill would reduce the conversion schedule required of local
government and private entities to convert fleet vehicles to
operate on alternative fuels.

The bill would modify the definition of a fleet vehicle to
exclude a vehicle normally garaged at a personal  residence or a
vehicle with a GVWR of greater than 26,000 pounds.   The bill
would create the Texas Mobile Emissions Reduction Credit Program
to be administered by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation
Commission.  The cost of implementing the program is not
anticipated to be significant.

As a result of these changes, there could be some savings to the
state and to local units of government.


The savings  to  the State or units of local government cannot be
determined.
        




 







Source:   LBB Staff: JK, DF