LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  March 11, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Keith Oakley, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 797, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
          Committee on Public Safety                              By: Carter
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB797 ( Relating 
to requiring the use of protective helmets for bicycle safety; 
providing criminal penalties.) this office has detemined the 
following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB797-Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
         
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         
FISCAL ANALYSIS 

The bill would provide for revenue collections 
from two types of fines.  The revenue would be remitted to the 
Comptroller of Public Accounts after recording and collection 
by county treasurers.  The Comptroller would deposit the amounts 
submitted into the Bicycle Safety Fund which, by reference, 
would be recreated as a dedicated fund outside of the General 
Revenue Fund.  There would be no administrative costs to the 
Comptroller's office or to the Department of Public Safety. 
 

The revenue gain to the state would depend on the number 
of offenses that would occur.  The revenue gains would probably 
not be substantial.  There would be a positive effect on the 
state's cash flow.  

This bill would recreate a special fund 
and a dedicated revenue source.  Legislative policy, implemented 
as Government Code Section 403.094 and 403.095, consolidated 
all special funds, except those affected by constitutional, 
federal, or other restrictions or exemptions, into the General 
Revenue Fund as of August 31,1993.  This policy was established 
by S.B. 3, 72nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1991, as amended 
by H.B. 3050, 74th Legislature, Regular Session.  

The recreation 
and/or continuation of special funds and dedicated revenue sources 
outside the General Revenue Fund could further restrict the 
Legislature's ability to appropriate revenues for general operating 
purposes.  

         
 
          
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government 
is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   
                                         304   Comptroller of Public Accounts
                                         405   Department of Public Safety
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,CB ,PE ,MG