TITLE: CONCERNING THE OPERATION OF MOTOR VEHICLES BY PERSONS UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND, IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, ESTABLISHING CERTAIN DRIVING RESTRICTIONS FOR PERSONS WITH MINOR DRIVER'S LICENSES.

Fiscal Impact Summary	FY 1999/2000	FY 2000/2001
State Revenues Cash Fund	Potential driver’s license reinstatement fees and traffic fines
State Expenditures General Fund
FTE Position Change	0.0 FTE	0.0 FTE
Other State Impact: None
Effective Date: July 1, 1999
Appropriation Summary for FY 1999-2000: None
Local Government Impact: Potential fine revenue and HUTF distributions

The bill would lower the age when a minor person enrolled in a driver education course may obtain a driver’s permit from age 15 and 3 months to age 15. It would increase the time period a minor would have to have a learner's permit from the current ninety days to six months. Minors would have to submit written evidence signed by an adult that the minor had 50 hours driving experience with ten of those hours at night.

• driving between midnight and five a.m.;•having more than one person at a time in the front seat with the driver; and•having non-family members in the vehicle without an adult licensed driver in the vehicle.

However, persons under the age of seventeen would be exempt from these requirements when engaged in agricultural activities.

A minor driver convicted of violating this bill would be guilty of a class A traffic infraction and subject to a $35 fine, $4 surcharge, and 2 point reduction on their driver’s license.

Fines collected from a conviction of a traffic offense issued by the Colorado State Patrol or local government peace officer and filed in county court would go to the Highway Users Tax Fund (HUTF). The amount of revenue generated from convictions on these offenses are estimated to be minimal. In addition, the new offenses allow for 2 point reductions on a driver’s license. These additional deductions may result in more minor drivers having their licenses revoked. Every time a person’s license is revoked, the person must pay a $40 reinstatement fee and the $15 driver’s license fee. These revenues would also go the the HUTF. The amount of additional revenue generated from this has been estimated to be minimal. The State Highway Fund would receive 65 percent of any additional fine revenue.

The Department of Revenue (DOR ) would have some minimal costs for 40 hours of computer programming and $984 in form costs that could be absorbed within the existing appropriations.

Fines collected from a conviction of a traffic offense issued by local government peace officer and filed in municipal court would go to the municipal jurisdiction. The amount of revenue generated from convictions on these offenses are estimated to be minimal to any one jurisdiction.

Local governments would also receive additional HUTF distributions from any fine revenue collected. Counties would receive twenty -six percent and cities would receive nine percent. The amount of any increased HUTF distribution to any one local government would be minimal.

This fiscal note implies that no additional appropriation would be required to implement this bill.