Honorable Terry Canales, Chair, House Committee on Transportation
FROM:
Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:
HB3747 by Goldman (relating to the criminal penalty for the offense of the unauthorized reproduction, purchase, use, sale, or possession of a temporary tag; creating a criminal offense; increasing criminal penalties.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
The bill would make it a Class A misdemeanor offense to possess an unauthorized temporary tag. The bill would increase the penalty for producing or reproducing a temporary tag or an item represented to be a temporary tag for the purpose of distributing the tag to someone other than a dealer or converter from a state jail felony to a third degree felony. The bill would increase the penalty for the unauthorized sale or distribution of a temporary tag or an item represented to be a temporary tag from a Class A misdemeanor to a third degree felony. The bill would increase the penalty for operating a vehicle that displays an unauthorized temporary tag from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class A misdemeanor.
It is assumed that the fiscal impact and any impact on state correctional populations or on the demand for state correctional resources would not be significant.
Local Government Impact
While it is assumed that any fiscal impact to units of local government associated with enforcement, prosecution, supervision, or confinement would not be significant, it would be dependent on the number of offenses committed and any subsequent penalties.
Source Agencies:
212 Office of Court Administration, Texas Judicial Council, 608 Department of Motor Vehicles