LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE
75th Regular Session
April 23, 1997
TO: Honorable Kim Brimer, Chair IN RE: Senate Bill No. 1581, As Engrossed
Committee on Business & Industry By: Carona
House
Austin, Texas
FROM: John Keel, Director
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB1581 ( Relating
to registration and reporting by certain organizations; providing
penalties.) this office has detemined the following:
Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB1581-As Engrossed
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
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 require the Attorney General to maintain a registry
of all charities that solicit by telephone and require charities
that register with the Attorney General to pay a filing fee
of fifty dollars. The fee would be dedicated for use by the
Attorney General during the biennium of receipt, to administer
the Act.
The fiscal implication would depend on the number
of charities required to file. Currently, there is no record
of the number of charities that solicit by telephone in this
state. However, the Attorney General anticipates that the cost
of additional personnel required to implement the bill's provisions
would be covered by the $50 filing fee. The Office would require
additional appropriation authority to utilize the new receipts.
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
Source: Agencies: 302 Office of the Attorney General
LBB Staff: JK ,TH ,JD ,JC