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, or sale of a temporary tag.), As Introduced
The bill would make it a third degree felony offense to possess 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. 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 operating a vehicle that displays an unauthorized temporary tag from a Class C misdemeanor to a to third degree felony.
Increasing the penalty for an existing offense may result in additional demands upon state and local correctional resources due to a possible increase in the number of individuals placed under supervision in the community or sentenced to a term of confinement.
In fiscal year 2022, there were 29 individuals arrested, 3 individuals placed on community supervision, and no individuals admitted into a state correctional institution for certain felony offenses of producing or reproducing a temporary tag.
The impact on state correctional populations or on the demand for state correctional resources cannot be determined due to a lack of data to identify and estimate the number of cases of operating a vehicle displaying an unauthorized temporary tag that would be subject to an increased penalty under the bill's provisions.