BILL ANALYSIS AND FISCAL IMPACT REPORT	Page 1 of  1

DATE: March 9, 2001	Submitted by: TAXATION AND REVENUE DEPT.
	T. GLENN ELLINGTON, SECRETARY
BILL NUMBER: SB-563 as amended by Senate Public Affairs Committee

SPONSOR: Senator Payne

BILL SHORT TITLE: Wallet-Sized Birth Certificate Replicas

DESCRIPTION:  As amended this measure would require the Taxation and Revenue Department's Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) to issue certified wallet-sized replicas of birth certificates. To acquire the wallet-sized certificates, citizens would be required to provide MVD with copies of their birth certificates. The copies would be required to be issued and certified by the Vital Statistics Bureau of the New Mexico Department of Health. The Taxation and Revenue Department would be allowed to charge a "reasonable fee" for producing and issuing the certificates. Fees for the certificates would be appropriated to the Department. The SPAC amendments make minor technical improvements to the measure.

EFFECTIVE DATE:  July 1, 2001

FISCAL IMPACT (Thousands of dollars):  		Note: Parenthesis ( ) indicate a revenue loss:
		Recurring or		
	Estimated Impact on Revenues	Nonrecurring	Funds 	
	FY 2002	Full Year  	     Impact     t     	             Affected          .             	
	*	*	Recurring	General Fund	
*depends on the number of fees issued and amounts charged for the fees.

APPROPRIATION IMPACT (Thousands of dollars):
			Recurring or		
	Estimated Impact on Appropriations	Nonrecurring	Funds 	
	  FY 2000 0 	  FY 2001  11  	    Impact   t     	     Affected    d             	
	*	*	Recurring	General Fund	
*depends on the number of fees issued and amounts charged for the fees. 

ADMINISTRATIVE I	MPACT:
Since the fees would approximate the cost of issuing them and appropriate amounts of resources could be purchased for the purpose of producing the certificates, no net increase in costs borne by the Motor Vehicle Division would probably result. However, depending on how many of the state's 1.8 million citizens request the replicas, the burden placed on MVD staff could be high with resulting inability to perform other tasks required by the Division. Moreover, it may not be possible to implement the program by July 1 due to the need to issue a request for proposals for equipment to do the copying and laminating.

TECHNICAL ISSUES:  none

OTHER IMPACTS AND ISSUES: 
1) The idea behind the bill does have merit. However, since citizens would be required to acquire certified copies of their birth certificates from the Department of Health under the proposed measure, it would seem more efficient for the wallet-sized certificates to be issued by the Health Department than by MVD. 
2) The bill would place unrelated work on an agency whose mission is to administer  the Motor Vehicle Code.