LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD

Austin, Texas

FISCAL NOTE, 80TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION

March 23, 2007

TO:	Honorable John Carona, Chair, Senate Committee on Transportation & Homeland Security
FROM:	John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:	SB137 by Nelson (Relating to the prohibition of signs on certain roads.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted

No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

The bill would authorize the commisioners court of a county, after the date of written notice to the Texas Department of Transportation, to prohibit by order the erection of off-premise signs on a road or portion of a road located in a county that has a population of 800,000 or more or is adjacent to a county with a population of 800,000 or more and outside the corporate limits or the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality.

The bill would take effect September 1, 2007.

Local Government Impact

No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.

Source Agencies:

601 Department of Transportation

LBB Staff:

JOB, KJG, DB