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

SPONSOR Grubesic

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

2/16/2007

HB

SHORT TITLE Change Licensing Dates for Driver Education Schools SB 1158

ANALYST Moser

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY07

FY08

NFI

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

Duplicate to: HB 1052

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

NM Department of Transportation (NMDOT)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

Senate Bill 1158 allows the Department of Transportation Traffic Safety Bureau to have

different expiration dates for annual licenses.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

None

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

Currently by statute, the DOT Traffic Safety Bureau licenses all Driver Education, Driving

Safety, and DWI Education Schools. The DOT Traffic Safety Bureau also licenses all Ignition

Interlock providers. This amounts to approximately 170 licenses per year. In addition, the DOT

Traffic Safety Bureau also licenses over 500 individuals annually to operate, teach, and provide

services for these programs.

Senate Bill 1158 – Page

2

PERFORMANCE IMPLICATIONS

NMDOT indicates that all licenses begin on July 1

st

of each year and expire on June 30

th

of each

year. This results in a bottle neck during the renewal process as everyone is trying to be licensed

and/or renewed at the same time. This bill would allow the DOT Traffic Safety Bureau to

stagger the expiration dates. For example, Driver Education licenses could expire on June 30

th

,

Driving Safety licenses could expire on September 30

th

, DWI Education licenses could expire on

December 31

st

and ignition interlock licenses could expire on March 30

th

. This would allow the

workload to be spread more evenly throughout the year and thus make the process more

efficient.

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