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

 

 

 

SPONSOR

Cisneros

DATE TYPED

2-14-04

HB

 

 

SHORT TITLE

Amend County Fire Protection Excise Tax

SB

358

 

 

ANALYST

Neel

 

 

REVENUE

 

Estimated Revenue

Subsequent

Years Impact

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY04

FY05

 

 

 

 

41,300.0

43,100.0

Recurring

Local Government

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Revenue Decreases)

 

Relates to:

SB 88, Expand County Gross Receipts Tax Authority

HB 44, County Local Option Gross Receipts

 

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

 

Responses Received From

Taxation and Revenue Department (TRD)

Department of Finance and Administration (DFA)

 

SUMMARY

 

Synopsis of Bill

 

Senate Bill 359 makes the following changes to statute:

 

County Fire Protection Gross Receipts Tax (amends Section 7-20E-15)

·        Removes current sunset provisions stipulating that the initial imposition of the tax shall be limited to a ten-year period, and subsequent impositions shall be limited to five-year periods.

 

County Emergency Communications and Emergency Medical Services Tax (amends Section 7-20E-22)

·        Removes current sunset provisions stipulating that the initial and subsequent impositions of the tax shall be limited to ten-year periods.

County Correctional Facility Gross Receipts Tax (amends Sections 7-20F-2 and 7-20F-3)

·        Expands authority to impose this tax to all counties (currently, only Chaves, Dona Ana, and Valencia counties are authorized to impose the tax);

·        Removes a stipulation that voters approve issuance of general obligation bonds to finance construction of correctional facilities as a condition of imposing the tax;

·        Removes the current ten-year imposition limitation;

·        Removes voter approval requirements for enactment of an ordinance imposing the tax—although county voters may petition to bring the issue to election; and

·        Expands allowable uses of the tax to permit use for operational expenses, as well as capital.

 

Additionally SB 358 adds provisions where the ordinance imposing the county correctional gross receipts tax may be sent to voters for their approval.  

 

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

 

TRD provided the following assumptions:

 

The fiscal impact illustrates the total additional revenue potential if all counties were to impose the additional tax increments authorized by this bill. The countywide gross receipts tax base is expected to be approximately $41.3 billion by FY 2005. 

 

The table attached to page 3 of this report provides a county-by-county illustration of potential revenue if provisions of this bill were in effect for FY 2003.

 

 

 

SN/yr

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Potential Revenue from County Correctional Facility GRT

Fiscal Year 2003

 

 

 

 

Taxable

Potential Revenue:

 

Gross Receipts

1/8% County Correctional

     County

 (FY 2003)

GRT Increment

 

 

 

Bernalillo

13,802,000,000

                       17,260,000

Catron

26,000,000

                             40,000

Chaves

845,000,000

N/A

Cibola

216,000,000

                           280,000

Colfax

248,000,000

                           320,000

Curry

629,000,000

                           780,000

De Baca

21,000,000

                             20,000

Dona Ana

2,302,000,000

N/A

Eddy

1,247,000,000

                        1,560,000

Grant

370,000,000

                           460,000

Guadalupe

80,000,000

                           100,000

Harding

9,000,000

                             20,000

Hidalgo

76,000,000

                           100,000

Lea

1,344,000,000

                        1,680,000

Lincoln

474,000,000

                           600,000

Los Alamos

748,000,000

                           940,000

Luna

273,000,000

                           340,000

McKinley

890,000,000

                        1,120,000

Mora

25,000,000

                             40,000

Otero

653,000,000

                           820,000

Quay

118,000,000

                           140,000

Rio Arriba

444,000,000

                           560,000

Roosevelt

205,000,000

                           260,000

Sandoval

862,000,000

                        1,080,000

San Juan

2,747,000,000

                        3,440,000

San Miguel

287,000,000

                           360,000

Santa Fe

3,224,000,000

                        4,040,000

Sierra

125,000,000

                           160,000

Socorro

143,000,000

                           180,000

Taos

523,000,000

                           660,000

Torrance

142,000,000

                           180,000

Union

64,000,000

                             80,000

Valencia

542,000,000

N/A

 

 

 

All Counties

33,704,000,000

37,620,000