ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE

 

STATEMENT TO

 

[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 1342

 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

 

DATED: OCTOBER 7, 1996

 

      The Assembly Appropriations Committee reports favorably Assembly Bill No. 1342 (1R).

      Assembly Bill No. 1342 (1R) authorizes the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to issue upon application by a person who has been certified as a Heavy Rescue volunteer, and whose certification is currently valid, special vehicle registration plates for the motor vehicle owned or leased by the person or the person's spouse. The plates would bear the words "Heavy Rescue" and a heavy rescue insignia or emblem. The special plates would also include the vehicle registration and other markings of identification prescribed by law. The fee for the special plates would be $25, in addition to the fees otherwise prescribed by law for the registration of motor vehicles. The bill provides that the Director of the DMV shall retain from the fees collected for the Heavy Rescue plates such sums as are necessary to provide for all costs incurred by the implementation of this act.

      

FISCAL IMPACT:

      In the legislative fiscal estimate to this bill, the Office of Legislative Services (OLS) estimated revenue in the range of $125,000 to $200,000 based on the estimated number of heavy rescue volunteers in the State being in the range of 5,000 to 8,000 paying the $25 fee. Fixed costs are estimated at $41,000 for reprogramming agency and revenue automated systems and one-time die costs. Variable costs would be approximately $8 for the issuance of each set of special plates.