LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE
74th Regular Session
April 19, 1995
TO: Honorable Ken Armbrister, Chair IN RE: Senate BillNo. 1504
Committee on State Affairs By: Montford
Senate
Austin, Texas
FROM: John Keel, Director
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on Senate Bill No.
1504 (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 make no appropriation but could provide the legal
basis for an appropriation of funds to implement the provisions
of the bill.
The bill would authorize units of local government to assist he
Department of Public Safety in the enforcement of certain
outstanding traffic warrants for failure to appear. The bill
would authorize the Department of Public Safety and units of
local government to contract to facilitate this exchange of
information. Additionally, the bill would authorize the DPS to
contract with a vendor to facilitate the contracts with the units
of local government. The bill authorizes the DPS to deny the
renewal of a driver's license based upon a person's failure to
appear.
The bill authorizes units of local governments to collect an
administrative fee of $30.00 for each violation for which the
defendant failed to appear. Units of local government would
retain $10.00 of each fee and remit the remaining $20.00 to the
Comptroller of Public Accounts. The bill dedicates half of the
state's revenue from the fee collections to the Department of
Public Safety.
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 General Gain to General Gain to General
Revenue Fund 001 Revenue Fund 001 Revenue Dedicated
to the Department
of Public Safety
1996 $2,750,051 $1,940,000 $1,940,000
1997 2,438,441 2,190,000 2,190,000
1998 2,438,441 2,190,000 2,190,000
1999 2,438,441 2,190,000 2,190,000
2000 2,438,441 2,190,000 2,190,000
Fiscal Probable Revenue Change in
Year Gain to Units of Number of State
Local Government Employees from
FY 1995
1996 $1,940,000 64.0
1997 2,190,000 64.0
1998 2,190,000 64.0
1999 2,190,000 64.0
2000 2,190,000 64.0
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, DF