TO: | Honorable Glenn Lewis, Chair, House Committee on County Affairs |
FROM: | John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | HB249 by Goolsby (Relating to the returned check fee collected by a county clerk.), As Introduced |
Under current statute, the county clerk may set and collect a fee of up to $25 for a returned check. County clerks from various size counties indicated that while the fiscal impact would be a positive one, the impact would be minimal. For example, Rockwall County (population 43,080) only encounters three to five returned checks per year and Denton County (population 432,976) no longer accepts checks from anyone other than attorneys and businesses, and those are rarely returned. Although the largest county in the state, Harris County (population 3.4 million), receives about 200 returned checks annually, the increased revenue would still be considered insignificant.
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
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LBB Staff: | JK, JB, DLBa
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