COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH

OVERSIGHT DIVISION

FISCAL NOTE

L.R. No.:         3787-01

Bill No.:          HB 1433

Subject:           Business and Commerce; Highway Patrol; Public Safety Department; Telecommunications

Type:              Original

Date:               January 9, 2008

Bill Summary:            This proposal requires purchasers of six or more disposable cell phones at one time to provide photo identification which will be reported and kept in a database by the Highway Patrol.

FISCAL SUMMARY

Numbers within parentheses: ( ) indicate costs or losses.

This fiscal note contains 6 pages.

☐ Estimated Total Net Effect on All funds expected to exceed $100,000 savings or (cost).

☐ Estimated Net Effect on General Revenue Fund expected to exceed $100,000 (cost).

FISCAL ANALYSIS

ASSUMPTION

Officials from the Department of Public Safety - Director’s Office and the Department of Economic Development - Public Service Commission each assume the proposal would not fiscally impact their respective agencies.

Officials from the Department of Public Safety - Missouri Highway Patrol (MHP) state the Highway Patrol's Information Systems Division is offering a simple, low-cost solution which will allow for the manual entry of cell phone purchase data into an Internet accessible database. The basic assumptions used to put this fiscal note together are as follows:

1) The cell phone providers would document, meeting the requirements specified by the Department of Public Safety, to central location located within the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

2) A central location within the Missouri State Highway Patrol would enter the relevant data elements (name, date of birth, address, and the cell numbers of all the units qualifying the purchaser to register).

3) The Information Systems Division of the Missouri State Highway Patrol will create and maintain the database structure necessary to host the proposed database.

4) Outside consultants will create the coding necessary to allow number two above to happen.

The MHP assumes the consultant would require 500 hours at $85 per hour (state contract rate) = $42,500. The 500 hours would consist of, but not be limited to, the design, programming, testing and implementing the web based application and will include but not be limited to:

Designing, developing, testing and implementing entry of procurement data received from the retailer for specific applicable data to the web based registry.

Developing, testing and implementing search criteria - i.e., Last Name, First Name; Last Name, First Name, Middle Initial; County of Procurement, Number combinations with County of Purchase, Retailer name and address, procurement date and time;

It would require one server for hosting the web based application software and database which would cost approximately $7,000. One Websphere License would cost $3,319.

ASSUMPTION (continued)

Annual recurring costs starting in year two include: annual maintenance for the Websphere estimated at $625 per year and annual application maintenance/upgrade estimated at 10 hours per year at $85 per hour.

ONE TIME EXPENDITURES

Consultant Fees 500 hours at $85 per hour $42,500

Internet cell phone registry server $7,000

One Websphere $3,319

TOTAL ONE TIME COSTS $52,819

RECURRING COSTS (starting year two)

License maintenance for Websphere $625

Application maintenance/upgrade 10 hours per year at $85/ hour $850

TOTAL RECURRING COSTS $1,475

APPLICATION SYNOPSIS

The cell phone purchase registry will be a "bare bones" application. In other words:

•          There will be no data validation to secondary data sources;

•          There will be no edits on data entry beyond the verification that required fields are present and date fields include only a proper range of values;

•          There will be only two user roles:

System Modifier - add, update, delete entries

System Viewer - view the registry over the Internet

•          There will be a single table in this application;

•          There will be no more than 4 views/reports developed for query of the registry:

By Last Name, First Name

By Last Name, First Name, Middle Initial

By County of Procurement

Deleted records (visible to System Modifiers only),

In summary, the MHP anticipates a cost to the General Revenue Fund of $52,819 in FY 2009 and roughly $1,500 per year thereafter.

FISCAL IMPACT - Small Business

Small businesses that sell disposable cell phones could be fiscally impacted as a result of this proposal depending on the number of times they must provide information to the Highway Patrol.

FISCAL DESCRIPTION

This proposal requires customers purchasing six or more disposable cell phones at one time to provide the retailer with photographic identification in accordance with a form developed by the

Department of Public Safety. The retailer is required to provide this information to the State Highway Patrol to retain in a database.

This legislation is not federally mandated, would not duplicate any other program and would not require additional capital improvements or rental space.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

Department of Public Safety

Department of Economic Development

                                                                                                Mickey Wilson, CPA

                                                                                                Director

                                                                                                January 9, 2008