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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR Anderson

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

2/07/07

2/13/07 HB 160/aHTPWC

SHORT TITLE Child Adoption Awareness License Plates

SB

ANALYST Earnest

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY07

FY08

NFI

NFI

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

REVENUE (dollars in thousands)

Estimated Revenue

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY07

FY08

FY09

*$0.1

*$0.1 Recurring Motor Vehicle

Suspense Fund

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Revenue Decreases)

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

Taxation and Revenue Department (TRD)

Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of HTPWC Amendment

The HTPWC amendment changes the effective date of the bill to July 1, 2008. This change

would allow TRD to make the necessary systems changes to implement the provisions of the bill.

House Bill 160/aHTPWC – Page

2

Synopsis of Original Bill

House Bill 160 would authorize a new standardized special registration plate with an artwork

logo promoting Child Adoption Awareness. The fee for the plate is $10 in addition to regular

registration fees. For registration renewals, only the regular registration fees would apply.

Revenue from the $10 fee would be retained by the Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) to offset the

costs of producing the plates.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

*The Motor Vehicle Department (MVD) of TRD cannot precisely estimate the number of Child

Adoption Awareness Registration special plates that may be requested. Approximately 25,000

special plates are currently issued under 22 different kinds. The most common are the veterans of

various armed services (9,269 total) and collegiate plates (8,957 total), but several of the special

plates have been issued in much smaller quantities.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

CYFD notes that production of this plate may produce competition for the existing CYFD “Child

abuse and neglect prevention" plate. Proceeds from the sale of the existing CYFD plate are

deposited into the Children’s Trust Fund with the primary purpose of funding, coordinating, and

developing child abuse and neglect prevention activities. The proposed plate does not distribute

fees to the existing fund.

ADMINISTRATIVE IMPLICATIONS

According to TRD, since the implementation of several special registration plates over the past

few years, the revenue accounting system of the Motor Vehicle Division has run out of revenue

codes to implement additional special registration plates. All new special registration plates are

assigned a revenue code and financial programming so the plate can be programmed into the

system and the associated funds distributed appropriately. Without any revenue codes available,

no additional special registration plates can be implemented into the existing system. In order to

accommodate new special registration plates, a re-write of the revenue accounting system will

need to occur. Without the necessary funding to accomplish a re-write, the TRD recommends a

July 1, 2008, effective date for this and any other special registration plate proposals in order to

complete the necessary system changes.

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