LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  March 19, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Eddie Lucio, Jr., Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 679
          Committee on Intergovernmental Relations                              By: Lindsay
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB679 ( Relating 
to the requirement that a portion of the sales and use tax revenue 
collected by certain metropolitan rapid transit authorities 
be used only for county and municipal road and bridge purposes.) 
this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB679-As Introduced
         
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
          
FISCAL ANALYSIS

This bill would require the Metropolitan 
Transit Authority of Harris County to distribute 25 percent 
of the total revenue from sales and use tax collected during 
a calendar year to each municipality or county in the authority. 


The authority already distributes these revenues (approximately 
$68.8 million of $268.3 million collected) to the 15 member 
municipalities and Harris County according to the authority's 
own formula.

METHODOLOGY

Data for the total amount of 
tax revenue collected in each member jurisdiction and the amount 
of interlocal payments made during fiscal year 1996 was provided 
by the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County.  The 
fiscal impact of this bill on each member local government is 
assumed to be the difference between the amount the bill would 
require as determined by the portion of tax collected in fiscal 
year 1996 and total interlocal payments to each entity in 1996.

This 
analysis assumes that the authority would distribute 25.6 percent 
of revenues collected to member local governments, since that 
is the percentage the authority allocated in fiscal year 1996.

FISCAL 
IMPACT

It is estimated that this bill would increase (decrease) 
annual revenues to member local governments in the following 
amounts:

Bellaire                                        
     ($4,000)
Bunker Hill                                  
 ($124,000)
El Lago                                        
 ($109,000)
Harris County                          ($13.3 million)
Hedwig 
Village                                $75,000
Hillshire Village 
                             ($88,000)
Houston             
                        $13.4 million
Humble               
                            $895,000
Hunters Creek Village 
                 ($103,000)
Katy                           
                        ($1,000)
Missouri City             
                    ($196,000)
Piney Point Village         
               ($124,000)
Southside Village                
             ($83,000)
Spring Valley                       
            ($84,000)
Taylor Lake Village                  
     ($120,000)
West University Place                   ($111,000) 


Similar annual fiscal implications would continue as long 
as the provisions of the bill are in effect. 
          
   Source:            Agencies:   
                                         Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,TL