LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE
75th Regular Session
March 16, 1997
TO: Honorable Fred M. Bosse, Chair IN RE: House Bill No. 2018
Committee on Land and Resource Management By: Maxey
House
Austin, Texas
FROM: John Keel, Director
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB2018 ( Relating
to the allocation of space to state agencies.) this office has
detemined the following:
Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB2018-As Introduced
Implementing the provisions of the bill would result in a
net impact of $0 to General Revenue Related Funds through the
biennium ending August 31, 1999.
Fiscal Analysis
The bill would amend the Government Code to require each state
agency under the charge and control of the General Service Commission
(GSC) to conduct periodic analyses to identify usable and exempt
space and to determine if each location meets the 153 square
feet average required by law. State agencies would be required
to submit a copy of each space analysis to the GSC and the Legislative
Budget Board (LBB).
The bill also would require GSC to identify
areas of the state in which more than one state agency operates
an administrative field office, review leases and office arrangements
of these state agencies, and use the results of each agency's
periodic space analysis to co-locate certain administrative
field offices in the same geographic area. GSC would be required
to include in its studies of agency space needs any transition
plans for the co-location of certain state agency administrative
field office space and to identify the costs and benefits of
co-location. The bill also would require GSC to study the potential
for co-locating a state agency field office with an office of
a federal agency in the same geographic area.
The bill would
require the Legislative Budget Board to include information
on a state agency's space usage in performance reports and would
prohibit the GSC from approving agency lease space requests
that allocate more than the average of 153 square feet per agency
employee.
Methodolgy
Co-location savings were estimated for eight counties that were
found to have a high potential for office space consolidation.
Full implementation of co-location would occur in fiscal year
2001, because at least 90 percent of GSC leases will expire
by then. Savings are likely to occur prior to fiscal year 2001,
but the amount would depend on the extent to which GSC is successful
at canceling unnecessary leased space and co-locating agencies.
The probable fiscal implications of implementing the provisions
of the bill during each of the first five years following passage
is estimated as follows:
Five Year Impact:
Fiscal Year Probable Probable
Savings/(Cost) Savings/(Cost)
from General from Other - Other
Revenue Fund
0001 OTHER-OTH
1998 $0 $0
1998 0 0
2000 581,600 154,400
2001 581,600 145,400
2002 581,600 145,400
Net Impact on General Revenue Related Funds:
The probable fiscal implication to General Revenue related funds
during each of the first five years is estimated as follows:
Fiscal Year Probable Net Postive/(Negative)
General Revenue Related Funds
Funds
1998 $0
1999 0
2000 581,600
2001 581,600
2002 581,600
Similar annual fiscal implications would continue as long as
the provisions of the bill are in effect.
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
Source: Agencies: 304 Comptroller of Public Accounts
LBB Staff: JK ,BB ,RN