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Division of the Budget
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Topeka, KS 66612                                   Division of the Budget                                    http://budget.kansas.gov
Larry L. Campbell, Director                                                                                 Laura Kelly, Governor


                                                     February 21, 2019
                                                         REVISED

         The Honorable Mike Petersen, Chairperson
         Senate Committee on Transportation
         Statehouse, Room 345-S
         Topeka, Kansas 66612
         Dear Senator Petersen:
                   SUBJECT:        Revised Fiscal Note for SB 139 by Senate Committee on Transportation
                 In accordance with KSA 75-3715a, the following revised fiscal note concerning SB 139 is
         respectfully submitted to your committee.
                   SB 139 would amend various vehicle registration fees including:
         1.        Reducing the fee for personalized license plates from $40 to $39.25;
         2.        Reducing the fee associated with transfer of ownership of a registered vehicle from $1.50
                   to $0.75;
         3.        Eliminating the $3 fee assessed to financial institutions to obtain a certificate of title for a
                   repossessed vehicle;
         4.        Reducing the fee for original certificate of title from $10 to $8;
         5.        Eliminating the $1.50 fee for processing and mailing a copy of a title application to a
                   lienholder;
         6.        Reducing the fee for a new certificate of title for vehicle buyers from $10 to $8;
         7.        Reducing the fee for a name change title from $10 to $8;
         8.        Reducing the fee to replace a lost, mutilated or illegible certificate of title from $10 to $8;
         9.        Eliminating the $1 fee to replace a lost, mutilated or illegible registration receipt;
         10.       Eliminating the $0.50 fee to replace a lost, mutilated or illegible registration decal;
         11.       Reducing the fee to replace a lost, mutilated or illegible license plate from $2 to $1.25;
         12.       Reducing the annual license fee for motorized bicycles from $11 to $10.25;
         13.       Reducing the annual license fee for motorcycles from $16 to 15.25;
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14.   Reducing from $30 to $29.25 the annual license fee for passenger vehicles used for
      carrying people for pleasure or business, hearses, and ambulances having a gross weight
      of 4,500 pounds or less;
15.   Reducing from $40 to $39.25 the annual license fee for passenger vehicles used for
      carrying people for pleasure or business, hearses, and ambulances having a gross weight
      of more than 4,500 pounds;
16.   Reducing the annual registration fee for motor vehicles, trailers or semitrailers owned by a
      political or taxing subdivision of the state from $2 to $1.25;
17.   Reducing the schedule of annual license fees for trucks and truck tractors by $0.75 for each
      fee;
18.   Adding a new schedule of annual license fees for trucks and truck tractors registered as
      commercial motor vehicles;
19.   Reducing the annual registration fee for trucks or truck tractors owned by a political or
      taxing subdivision of the state from $2 to $1.25;
20.   Reducing the schedule of annual license fees for local trucks and truck tractors by $0.75
      for each fee;
21.   Adding a new schedule of annual license fees for local trucks and truck tractors registered
      as commercial motor vehicles;
22.   Reducing the schedule of annual license fees for farm trucks and truck tractors by $0.75
      for each fee;
23.   Reducing the schedule of annual license fees for local urban transit buses by $0.75 for each
      fee;
24.   Reducing the schedule of annual license fees for trailers, semitrailers, travel trailers or pole
      trailers by $0.75 for each fee;
25.   Adding a new schedule of annual license fees trailers, semitrailers, travel trailers or pole
      trailers registered as commercial motor vehicles;
26.   Reducing the application fee from $1.50 to $0.75 for transfers to corporations or
      registrations of motorcycles, motorized bicycles, passenger vehicles, trucks, truck tractors,
      trailers, semitrailers, or electrically propelled vehicles;
27.   Reducing the fee for sixty-day temporary licenses from $3 to $2.25;
28.   Reducing the schedule of annual license fees for farm custom harvesting trucks and truck
      tractors by $0.75 for each fee;
29.   Adding a new schedule of annual license fees for farm custom harvesting trucks and truck
      tractors registered as commercial motor vehicles;
30.   Requiring the Department of Revenue Division of Vehicles or the contractor to deposit
      $0.75 of each commercial or apportioned license application to a special fund used by the
      county treasurer, Division or contractor;
31.   Requiring a service fee of $10 for a title, registration or renewal;
32.   Eliminating the $5 fee for registration of antique vehicles;
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33.    Reducing the fee for registering another antique vehicle under the same license plate
       designation from $1.50 to $0.75;
34.    Reducing the special combination fee, registration fee and model year license plate fee for
       antique vehicles from $40 to $39.25 for each fee;
35.    Reducing the annual registration fee for special interest vehicles or street rod vehicles from
       $26 to $25.25;
36.    Reducing the application fee for a nonhighway certificate of title from $10 to $8;
37.    Reducing the application fee for a salvage title from $10 to $8;
38.    Increasing the permit for a salvage vehicle that has been assembled, reconstructed,
       reconstituted or restored from $1 to $10;
39.    Reducing certain certificate of title fees for manufactured homes and mobile homes from
       $10 to $8 for each fee; and
40.    Reducing the fee for application to reissue a certificate of title showing a vehicle to be clear
       of any lien.
      The Department of Revenue estimates the agency would receive additional annual revenue
of $143,680 from all funds from the fee changes in the bill. The agency would also incur
expenditures of $15,840 from all funds for programming updates to its information systems.
        The bill would have no fiscal effect on the Department of Transportation or the State
Highway Fund. In the original fiscal note, it was estimated that the bill would reduce revenues to
the State Highway Fund by approximately $950,000 and by about $1.9 million annually in the out
years. The Department of Transportation received clarification from the Department of Revenue
on the bill and, as a result, the fiscal effect has been revised. Any fiscal effect associated with SB
139 is not reflected in The FY 2021 Governor’s Budget Report.


                                                       Sincerely,

                                                       Larry L. Campbell
                                                       Director of the Budget

cc: Lynn Robinson, Department of Revenue
    Jay Hall, Association of Counties
    Ben Cleeves, Transportation
Statutes affected: 
As introduced: 8-132, 8-135, 79-5104, 8-135a, 8-135c, 8-139, 8-143, 8-143j, 8-145, 8-145d, 8-167, 8-170, 8-172, 8-195, 8-198, 58-4204, 74-2013, 79-3604