LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 76th Regular Session
  
                              April 15, 1999
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Frank Madla, Chair, Senate Committee on
               Intergovernmental Relations
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  SB 1175  by Wentworth (Relating to the regulation of land
               development by a political subdivision that affects
               certain property in certain road districts.), Committee
               Report 1st House, Substituted
  
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*  No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.        *
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This analysis assumes that the term "political subdivision" refers to a
local government and therefore does not apply to any agency of the
state. If the term would apply to the state, the state could potentially
incur costs similar to those shown below for local governments.
  
Local Government Impact
  
Fiscal Analysis

The bill would also require that if a political subdivision would change
development regulations reducing the amount of impervious cover or total
floor area allowed on at least 20 percent of the land in an assessment
road district that has refinanced debt under Section 2.018, Article 726,
Revised Statutes, the political subdivision would be required to pay the
outstanding bonded indebtedness of the assessment road district.

Methodology

The bill could affect any political subdivision that has authority to
regulate impervious cover or allowable floor area relating to land
development in an area within a road district.

Data on outstanding road district debt as of August 31, 1998 was provided
by the Comptroller's office.

This analysis assumes that any road district with outstanding debt has
refinanced debt or would refinance debt at some point prior to a time
when a political subdivision would change development regulations on land
located in such a road district. The estimates in this analysis assume
that the outstanding debt of a road district would be required to pay as
a result of a development regulation change would be equal to its debt on
August 31, 1998. If more debt would be incurred by a road district prior
to a development regulation change, then the cost to a political
subdivision would be greater than presented in the estimates below. If a
road district would repay all or a portion of its debt prior to the
enactment of more stringent development regulations by a political
subdivision, there could be no cost or a lower cost to such a political
subdivision.

Fiscal Impact

If a political subdivision would reduce allowable impervious cover or
floor area development regulations in the area within one or more of the
road districts listed below, the political subdivision could be required
to repay the outstanding debt of the respective road district. A road
district would receive revenues equal to the amount of its outstanding
debt, as listed below:

Denton County Road Utility District 1--$17,3 million
Fort Bend Parkway Road District--$1.3 million
Hidalgo County Road District 5--$550,000
Northeast Round Rock Road District 1--$8.1 million
Northwest Travis County Road District 3--$7.3 million
Pioneer Trail County Road District 1--$30,000
Southeast Williamson County Road District--$2.8 million
Southwest Travis County Road District 1--$2.9 million
Southwest Williamson County Road District 1--$2.8 million
Springlake Road District 1--$200,000
Stony Point Road District--$355,000
South Montgomery County Road District 1--$589,463
Woodlands Road Utility District 1--$28.9 million
  
  
Source Agencies:   304   Comptroller of Public Accounts
LBB Staff:         JK, TL