Honorable Larry Phillips, Chair, House Committee on Homeland Security & Public Safety
FROM:
Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:
HB229 by Guillen (Relating to the disposition of certain surplus motor vehicles and other law enforcement equipment by the Texas Facilities Commission.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
The bill would amend the Government Code to allow the Facilities Commission to transfer surplus motor vehicles and other surplus equipment of the Department of Public Safety to a municipal or county law enforcement agency in an economically disadvantaged area, for a price or other consideration, if it is determined that the transfer of property would benefit the efforts to secure the state's international border and combat transnational crime.
This analysis assumes that implementing the provisions of the bill could be absorbed within existing resources.
The bill would take effect September 1, 2015.
Local Government Impact
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated. It is assumed that local law enforcement agencies would agree to a transfer at a price or for other consideration if sufficient funding was available.
Source Agencies:
303 Facilities Commission, 405 Department of Public Safety