LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE, 76th Regular Session
April 6, 1999
TO: Honorable Clyde Alexander, Chair, House Committee on
Transportation
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), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
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* Estimated Two-year Net Impact to General Revenue Related Funds for *
* HB3014, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted: positive 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 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 $(6,777,443) $8,649,336 *
* 2001 (13,159,533) 17,545,044 *
* 2002 (13,347,715) 17,796,953 *
* 2003 (13,538,588) 18,051,450 *
* 2004 (13,732,190) 18,309,586 *
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Fiscal Analysis
The bill would require the Texas Department of Transportation 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.
Methodology
The Texas Department of Transportation (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:
LBB Staff: JK, PE, ML