LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE, 76th Regular Session
May 10, 1999
TO: Honorable David Cain, Chair, Senate Committee on
Infrastructure
FROM: John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE: HB3014 by Hawley (Relating to the Texas Department of
Transportation's automated registration and title
system.), As Engrossed
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* Estimated Two-year Net Impact to General Revenue Related Funds for *
* HB3014, As Engrossed: impact of $0 through the biennium ending *
* August 31, 2001. *
* *
* The bill would make no appropriation but could provide the legal *
* basis for an appropriation of funds to implement the provisions of *
* the bill. *
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General Revenue-Related Funds, Five-Year Net Impact:
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* Fiscal Year Probable Net Positive/(Negative) *
* Impact to General Revenue Related *
* Funds *
* 2000 $0 *
* 2001 0 *
* 2002 0 *
* 2003 0 *
* 2004 0 *
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All Funds, Five-Year Impact:
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*Fiscal Probable Cost from State Probable Revenue Gain to State *
* Year Highway Fund Highway Fund *
* 0006 0006 *
* 2000 $(5,949,908) $7,010,432 *
* 2001 (11,066,021) 14,221,361 *
* 2002 (11,218,545) 14,424,726 *
* 2003 (11,373,250) 14,631,000 *
* 2004 (11,530,167) 14,840,223 *
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Fiscal Analysis
The bill would require the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDot) to
collect an additional $1 fee when processing a registration issuance,
renewal or replacement. The bill would allow the department to enhance
the automated registration and titling system. The bill would only
apply to counties in which 50,000 or more motor vehicles were registered
during the preceding year.
Methodology
TxDot applied the following assumptions in providing an estimate for the
bill. There would be 17,054,788 registrations and replacements issued
in fiscal year 1999 with a 1.43 percent growth thereafter. That $0.75
of the one dollar collected would be out-sourced to a vendor responsible
for a point-of-sale registration insignia system. TxDot would retain the
remaining $0.25 of the dollar fee. TxDot provided for an implementation
date of March 1, 2000 due to the length of time needed for programming
changes. Therefore, in the first year there would be only a partial
year's collection of the fee.
Local Government Impact
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.
Source Agencies: 304 Comptroller of Public Accounts, 601
Department of Transportation
LBB Staff: JK, SD, PE, ML