LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE
74th Regular Session
April 25, 1995
TO: Honorable Ken Armbrister, Chair IN RE: Committee Substitute
Committee on State Affairs for Senate
Senate Bill No. 1504
Austin, Texas
FROM: John Keel, Director
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on Senate Bill No.
1504 (Relating to failure to appear on a complaint, citation, or
court order to pay a fine for a violation of a traffic law.) 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