LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD

Austin, Texas

FISCAL NOTE, 80TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION

May 7, 2007

TO:	Honorable John Carona, Chair, Senate Committee on Transportation & Homeland Security
FROM:	John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:	HB1052 by Callegari (Relating to requiring warning signs before intersections at which a municipality uses a photographic traffic monitoring system to enforce compliance with a traffic-control signal.), As Engrossed

No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

The bill would add Section 544.012 to Chapter 544, Transportation Code, to require a municipality that uses a photographic traffic monitoring system to post signs that would notify drivers that they are approaching an intersection that is monitored by a photographic system.

Local Government Impact

If an affected municipality has already erected signs, as per the suggestion in the Municipal Maintenance Agreements with the Texas Department of Transportation, there would be no fiscal impact. If signs have not been erected, the municipality would incur costs of having the signs made and installed. According to TxDOT, the average cost of a small mounted sign is between $125 and $425 and of a larger mounted sign is between $350 and $500. The cost to the municipality would vary depending on how many intersections would require signage.

Source Agencies:

601 Department of Transportation

LBB Staff:

JOB, KJG, DB