This website will be unavailable from Thursday, May 30, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. through Monday, June 3, 2024 at 7:00 a.m. due to data center maintenance.
LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE, 88TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION
May 15, 2023
TO:
Honorable Robert Nichols, Chair, Senate Committee on Transportation
FROM:
Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:
HB3443 by Canales (Relating to adding a designation on a person's driver's license or commercial driver's license indicating that the person is licensed to carry a handgun.), As Engrossed
Estimated Two-year Net Impact to General Revenue Related Funds for HB3443, As Engrossed : a negative impact of ($1,290,764) through the biennium ending August 31, 2025.
The bill would make no appropriation but could provide the legal basis for an appropriation of funds to implement the provisions of the bill.
General Revenue-Related Funds, Five- Year Impact:
Fiscal Year
Probable Net Positive/(Negative) Impact to General Revenue Related Funds
2024
($1,290,764)
2025
$0
2026
$0
2027
$0
2028
$0
All Funds, Five-Year Impact:
Fiscal Year
Probable Savings/(Cost) from General Revenue Fund 1
2024
($1,290,764)
2025
$0
2026
$0
2027
$0
2028
$0
Fiscal Analysis
The bill would require the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to provide applicants for a license to carry a handgun (LTC) the option to include on the person's driver's license or commercial driver's license the designation that the person possesses a LTC.
The bill would include the person's LTC number and the period for which the LTC is effective on the LTC designation on the person's driver's license.
The bill would take effect on September 1, 2023.
Methodology
According to DPS, the provisions of the bill would require the agency to redesign the current driver's license/ID card to include the LTC number and period of effectiveness, update six license application forms to include the LTC option, and add a new LTC designation option to the Driver License System.
This analysis assumes a onetime cost of $1,290,764 in fiscal year 2024, including $36,500 for the creation of a new design with the current contractor, $19,800 to update six license application forms ($3,300 per form), and $1,234,464 in programming costs to update the Driver License System.
Local Government Impact
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.