LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD Austin, Texas FISCAL NOTE 74th Regular Session February 13, 1995 TO: Honorable Ken Armbrister, Chair IN RE: Senate Bill No. 200 Committee on State Affairs By: Armbrister Senate 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; the adoption of certain regulations to encourage and require the use of alternative fuels; the purchase, financing, lease, or conversion of motor vehicles by school districts, local governments, private fleet operators, and local (and certain mass) transit authorities and districts to assure the use of alternative fuels.) 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. 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: Comptroller of Public Accounts, Natural Resource Conservation Commission LBB Staff: JK, JB, DF