| TO: | Honorable Joseph Pickett, Chair, House Committee on Transportation |
| FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | SB249 by Shapleigh (Relating to optional fees on the registration of a vehicle imposed by certain counties.), As Engrossed |
The bill would authorize additional counties than authorized under current statute to impose an optional $10 fee on registration of a vehicle to fund transportation projects. Rather than sending fee revenue to the regional mobility authority, the money would be required to be deposited into a special account in the county general revenue fund to be used only for the costs of constructing and maintaining public roadway projects in the county and acquiring rights-of-way for those projects.
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) would be required to send fees collected to the county for deposit and use as provided above rather than to the regional mobility authority of the county.
TxDOT would incur one-time programming costs for modifying its automated system to allow for the additional collection; however, this analysis assumes that costs associated with implementing the provisions of the bill could be absorbed within existing resources.
The bill would apply only to El Paso County.
Because the bill would not have statewide impact on units of local government of the same type or class, no comment from this office is required by the rules of the House/Senate as to its probable fiscal implication on units of local government.
| Source Agencies: | 601 Department of Transportation
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| LBB Staff: | JOB, DB, KJG, MW
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