LEGISLATIVE FISCAL ESTIMATE TO

[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 541

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED: MAY 15, 1996

      Senate Bill No. 541(1R) of 1996 permits the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to issue special game fish license plates. The director would be authorized to charge an initial application fee of $50 and a $10 renewal fee which shall be in addition to all fees otherwise required by law. After reimbursing DMV for expenses associated with plate issuance, the remaining application and renewal fee revenues are to be deposited into a non-lapsing "Game Fish License Plate Fund" which is to be administered by the Division of Fish, Game and Wildlife in the Department of Environmental Protection for marine fisheries conservation management and research.

      In a previous estimate to a similar bill, Senate No. 1857 of 1995, DMV estimated total fixed costs to be about $41,000, for reprogramming agency and revenue automated systems, and for one-time die costs. Variable costs would be about $8 for the issuance of each set of special plates. However, since DMV could not estimate public interest in the new, special license plates, it did not project revenues from application and renewal fees.

      The Office of Legislative Services concurs with the previously estimated DMV costs.

The legislative fiscal estimate has been produced by the Office of Legislative Services due to the failure of the Executive Branch to respond to our request for a fiscal note.

This fiscal estimate has been prepared pursuant to P.L.1980, c.67.