| TO: | Honorable Larry Phillips, Chair, House Committee on Transportation |
| FROM: | John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | HB1274 by Pena (Relating to an exemption from the payment of a toll for unmarked military vehicles conducting or training for emergency operations.), As Introduced |
The bill would amend the Transportation Code to include an unmarked military vehicle operated by military personnel conducting an emergency preparedness, response, or recovery operation or training exercise in the definition of a military vehicle for the purpose of a toll road exemption.
The Texas Department of Transportation indicated the fiscal impact associated with the provisions of the bill is not anticipated to be significant because the department's toll operations currently has a process to identify non-revenue vehicles which requires the non-revenue entity to provide the license plate numbers. If this process would apply, the impact would only be the loss of revenue from the military vehicles which is estimated to be a low number of applicable vehicles (estimated 20 per year at a cost of $7 each).
| Source Agencies: | 601 Department of Transportation
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| LBB Staff: | JOB, KJG, TP
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