TO: | Honorable Craig Estes, Chair, Senate Committee on Agriculture & Rural Affairs |
FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | SB1586 by Harris (Relating to the establishment of a shared database for deer breeder reporting requirements.), As Introduced |
Fiscal Year | Probable Net Positive/(Negative) Impact to General Revenue Related Funds |
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2010 | $0 |
2011 | $0 |
2012 | $0 |
2013 | $0 |
2014 | $0 |
Fiscal Year | Probable (Cost) from Game,Fish,Water Safety Ac 9 |
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2010 | ($602,229) |
2011 | |
2012 | |
2013 | |
2014 |
The TAHC anticipates any additional work to the TAHC resulting from the passage of the bill could be reasonably absorbed within current resources. However, the TPWD anticipates the bill would have a fiscal implication in fiscal year 2010, as follows:
Based on Department of Information Resources Staffing Service estimates, this analysis assumes the development of such a database will require the contract services of two programmers, full-time for one full year, and an additional programmer for 10 months. Based on TPWD's initial scope of this database, the needs of TPWD are significantly larger than that of the Texas Animal Health Commission (TPWD field biologists, and law enforcement wardens will be utilizing this database); as such a significant portion of the development costs will be incurred by TPWD. The total costs associated for the contract services of three programmers including salary ($575,640), computers ($6,225), and other equipment operating expenses ($20,364) totals $602,229 in fiscal year 2010. TPWD indicates it can absorb the costs of ongoing routine maintenance of the new database.
The bill would require that deer breeders whose cooperation results in reduced costs, be compensated with a reduced deer breeder permit and longer permit duration. Ultimately, this will result in decreased revenue to the General Revenue-Dedicated Game, Fish and Water Safety Account No. 9; however, considering that the per unit permit reduction, and the length of permit extension is unknown at this time, no reasonable revenue loss estimate could be made.
Source Agencies: | 554 Animal Health Commission, 802 Parks and Wildlife Department
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LBB Staff: | JOB, WK, TB
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