COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH

OVERSIGHT DIVISION

FISCAL NOTE

L.R. No.:         4373-02

Bill No.:          HB 2201

Subject:           Fire Protection Associations: Fees, Memberships, Collections

Type:              Original

Date:               April 8, 2008

Bill Summary:            Modifies provisions relating to collection of volunteer fire protection association fees.

FISCAL SUMMARY

Numbers within parentheses: ( ) indicate costs or losses.

This fiscal note contains 5 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 of the Department of Public Safety - Fire Safety assume no fiscal impact to their agency.

Officials of the Callaway and Cole County Collector’s Offices assume no fiscal impact.

Officials of the Boone County Collector’s Office assume if they were to collect subscriber fees of volunteer fire departments they would have costs of billing, collection, mailing and distribution of the fees.

Officials of the Southern Iron County Fire Protection District assume no fiscal impact.

Officials of the City of Centralia assume no fiscal impact.

Oversight assumes this proposal, as written, is enabling legislation and would require a citizen petition to the County Commission, and would require voter approval before there would be fiscal impact.

Oversight assumes if a County would collect the membership fees for a volunteer fire department the County Collector would have some administrative fiscal impact from preparing the personal property tax bill to include the membership fee. Oversight assumes the Collector would have some programming costs to include the fee on the tax bill.

Oversight assumes that the Collector would realize some administrative impact in distribution of the fee. Oversight assumes that impact would be insignificant.

Oversight for the purposes of this fiscal note assumes any additional costs would be insignificant and will show fiscal impact as zero.

Oversight would note that this proposal does not provide for a collection fee to go to the Collector or the County.

FISCAL IMPACT - Small Business

No direct fiscal impact to small businesses would be expected as a result of this proposal.

FISCAL DESCRIPTION

The proposed legislation appears to have no fiscal impact.

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 - Fire Safety

Callaway County Collector

Cole County Collector

Boone County Collector

City of Centralia

Southern Iron County Fire Department

NOT RESPONDING

Greene County Collector

Cass County

Lafayette County

Pemiscot County

Pulaski County

St. Francois County

Sullivan County

Taney County

NOT RESPONDING (continued)

Texas County

Warren County

Webster County

Hawk Point Volunteer Fire District

Platte County Collector

Annapolis Volunteer Fire Department

Atlanta Volunteer Fire Department

Cameron Volunteer Fire Department

Centralia Volunteer Fire Department

                                                                                                Mickey Wilson, CPA

                                                                                                Director

                                                                                                April 8, 2008