LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD Austin, Texas FISCAL NOTE 75th Regular Session May 23, 1997 TO: Honorable Steven Wolens, Chair IN RE: Senate Bill No. 1915, Committee Report 2nd House, as amended Committee on State Affairs By: Sibley House Austin, Texas FROM: John Keel, Director In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB1915 ( Relating to the regulation of utilities.) this office has detemined the following: Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB1915-Committee Report 2nd House, as amended No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated. The bill would authorize the Public Utility Commission (PUC) to assess a fee to cover the cost of the agency's system of electronic access to rulemaking and contested case proceedings. According to PUC, this section would create no fiscal impact because it simply provides the statutory authority to do what the agency currently does via a fee waiver from the General Service Commission. The bill would require certain administrative penalties to be deposited to the credit of PUC. Since no dedicated fund is specified or created in this section, the Comptroller assumes that these penalties would still be deposited into General Revenue. The bill would require PUC to conduct an educational program. According to PUC, any additional workload could be handled with existing PUC resources. No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated. Source: Agencies: LBB Staff: JK ,JD ,TH ,BK