LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
Revision 1
April 26, 2001
TO: Honorable Florence Shapiro, Chair, Senate Committee on
State Affairs
FROM: John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE: SB853 by Harris (Relating to service of citation and
publication of certain notices required by law.), As
Introduced
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* Estimated Two-year Net Impact to General Revenue Related Funds for *
* SB853, As Introduced: negative impact of $(699,938) through the *
* biennium ending August 31, 2003. *
* *
* 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 *
* 2002 $(543,319) *
* 2003 (156,619) *
* 2004 (156,619) *
* 2005 (156,619) *
* 2006 (156,619) *
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All Funds, Five-Year Impact:
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*Fiscal Probable Savings/(Cost) from Change in Number of State *
* Year General Revenue Fund Employees from FY 2001 *
* 0001 *
* 2002 $(543,319) 2.0 *
* 2003 (156,619) 2.0 *
* 2004 (156,619) 2.0 *
* 2005 (156,619) 2.0 *
* 2006 (156,619) 2.0 *
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Technology Impact
Oracle Database: $270,000
Annual Maintenance: 54,000
Web Server:
20,000
Annual Maintenance: 4,000
Software, Oracle Application Server: 6,700
Annual Maintenance: 1,350
Development programming services: 90,000
Annual Maintenance: 18,000
TOTAL:
$464,050
Fiscal Analysis
The bill requires the Secretary of State (SOS) to establish an Internet
site on which a person may publish a notice or serve a citation that a
state statute or rule requires the person to publish or serve in a
newspaper. It would also require SOS to publish notice of each
constitutional amendment on a section of the Internet site where notices
are published.
Methodology
According to SOS, the bill would necessitate their establishment of an
Internet-based Oracle database, which will permit users to post text
notices (with optional graphical attachments). The posting would be
organized geographically by county. A user would be able to designate a
posting for one or more counties. A search engine would permit a user to
search the entire database by word or phrase. Or a user could look up a
posting for a specific county or date. The SOS anticipates a minimum of
300,000 postings each year. Two FTEs would be employed to explain
filing procedures and assist with posting of notices. This analysis is
based on the Internet-based open meetings database developed for the SOS
in 1999.
Development and implementation costs are estimated to be $543,319. This
estimate includes two FTE's (Admin Tech III, $25,932 annual salary
each). It also includes the necessary computer hardware and software,
as well as programming services. For each year following
implementation, annual computer maintenance costs are estimated to be
$77,350.
Local Government Impact
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.
Source Agencies: 200 Supreme Court, 307 Secretary of State
LBB Staff: JK, RB, MF, SK