FISCAL NOTE Requested by Legislative Council 01/20/2015
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15.0167.02000 FISCAL NOTE Requested by Legislative Council 01/20/2015 Amendment to: Engrossed HB 1065 1 A. State fiscal effect: Identify the state fiscal effect and the fiscal effect on agency appropriations compared to funding levels and appropriations anticipated under current law. 2013-2015 Biennium 2015-2017 Biennium 2017-2019 Biennium General Fund Other Funds General Fund Other Funds General Fund Other Funds Revenues Expenditures Appropriations 1 B. County, city, school district and township fiscal effect: Identify the fiscal effect on the appropriate political subdivision. 2013-2015 Biennium 2015-2017 Biennium 2017-2019 Biennium Counties Cities School Districts Townships 2 A. Bill and fiscal impact summary: Provide a brief summary of the measure, including description of the provisions having fiscal impact (limited to 300 characters). This bill, as amended, calls for a legislative study to identify what laws may need to be changed to accommodate the introduction or testing of automated vehicles and any automated corridors affecting ND. B. Fiscal impact sections: Identify and provide a brief description of the sections of the measure which have fiscal impact. Include any assumptions and comments relevant to the analysis. Since this bill has been amended to be only a call for a legislative study, there should be no direct fiscal impact beyond the costs associated with conducting the study. At this time we have no way to determine the costs that would be associated with conducting the study. 3. State fiscal effect detail: For information shown under state fiscal effect in 1A, please: A. Revenues: Explain the revenue amounts. Provide detail, when appropriate, for each revenue type and fund affected and any amounts included in the executive budget. B. Expenditures: Explain the expenditure amounts. Provide detail, when appropriate, for each agency, line item, and fund affected and the number of FTE positions affected. C. Appropriations: Explain the appropriation amounts. Provide detail, when appropriate, for each agency and fund affected. Explain the relationship between the amounts shown for expenditures and appropriations. Indicate whether the appropriation or a part of the appropriation is included in the executive budget or relates to a continuing appropriation. Name: Shannon L. Sauer Agency: NDDOT Telephone: 328-4375 Date Prepared: 01/20/2015 15.0167.01000 FISCAL NOTE Requested by Legislative Council 12/19/2014 Bill/Resolution No.: HB 1065 1 A. State fiscal effect: Identify the state fiscal effect and the fiscal effect on agency appropriations compared to funding 1eve 1s an d approona·r wns an r·1cwa tde un der currenti aw. 2013-2015 Biennium 2015-2017 Biennium 2017-2019 Biennium General Fund Other Funds General Fund Other Funds General Fund Other Funds Revenues Expenditures Appropriations 1 B. County, city, school district and township fiscal effect: Identify the fiscal effect on the appropriate political subdivision 2013-2015 Biennium 2015-2017 Biennium 2017-2019 Biennium Counties Cities School Districts Townships 2 A. Bill and fiscal impact summary: Provide a brief summary of the measure, including description of the provisions having fiscal impact (limited to 300 characters). This bill provides a number of provisions related to autonomous vehicles. B. Fiscal impact sections: Identify and provide a briefdescription of the sections of the measure which have fiscal impact. Include any assumptions and comments relevant to the analysis. At this time we have no way to determine the fiscal impact that may result from this legislation. 3. State fiscal effect detail: For information shown under state fiscal effect in 1A, please: A. Revenues: Explain the revenue amounts. Provide detail, when appropriate, for each revenue type and fund affected and any amounts included in the executive budget. B. Expenditures: Explain the expenditure amounts. Provide detail, when appropriate, for each agency, line item, and fund affected and the number of FTE positions affected. C. Appropriations: Explain the appropriation amounts. Provide detail, when appropriate, for each agency and fund affected. Explain the relationship between the amounts shown for expenditures and appropriations. Indicate whether the appropriation or a parl of the appropriation is included in the executive budget or relates to a continuing appropriation. Name: Glenn Jackson Agency: NDDOT Telephone: 328-4792 Date Prepared: 01/06/2015 2015 HOUSE TRANSPORTATION HB 1065 2015 HOUSE STANDING COMMITTEE MINUTES Transportation Committee Fort Totten Room, State Capitol HB 1065 1/9/2015 #21798 D Subcommittee Conference Committee Committee Clerk Signature ction of bill/resolution: Minutes: II Attachments #1-7 The meeting was called to order by Chairman Dan Ruby. Representative Ben Hanson testified in favor of HB 1065 and explained the bill. See attachment #1. (10:00 minutes) Chairman Dan Ruby: This bill deals mostly with testing. Is this mostly to allow these vehicles to be on the roads, and is it completely up to Department of Transportation which roads will be used for the initial testing phase, and when this will happen? Representative Ben Hanson: I feel the language in the bill allows Department of Transportation to do that. If they don't think so, I would be willing to specify that. Chairman Dan Ruby: Do other states have standards in place that Department of Transportation can refer to? Or are will they develop them on their own? Representative Ben Hanson: Yes, California, Nevada, Florida, Michigan, and few cities in Idaho, and the District of Columbia all do have rules pertaining to this. I did not include those intentionally because I wanted our Department of Transportation to have the decision making power to do it. Representative Gary Paur: Are you agreeable to use the Hondas for testing purposes only? Representative Ben Hanson: Yes. Representative Gary Paur: You are creating a whole new chapter in Century Code. Would it make more sense to go under the previous 39-10.3 which deals with experimental vehicles? House Transportation Committee HB 1065 01/09/15 Page 2 Representative Ben Hanson : It sounds reasonable, but when I asked Legislative Council to draft legislation that would allow testing, this is what they came back with. Representative Ben Hanson provided a letter from Honda that provides support and possible amendments for HB 1065. See attachments #3. He also submitted an amendment for consideration, 15.0167.01001. See attachment #2. Rep. Thomas Beadle, District 27 spoke briefly to voice his support for this bill. He feels that this is taking place nationwide and once the regulations are in place it allows industry to start looking and developing the technology to go forward. We want to make sure that the lack of regulations will not stand as an obstacle as we move toward this additional technology on our roadways. Dave Blair, represents Central North American Trade Corridor and KLJ Engineering, spoke to support HB 1065. Dave Blair: At a transportation summit last year we brought up the idea of autonomous friendly corridor utilizing North Dakota as one of the states. We would like some legislation in place early on for looking at testing grounds in North Dakota. We have talked to Volvo and Peterbuilt about adopting a training ground and training facility here in North Dakota. There will be a national summit to bring in autonomous vehicles that will be hosted at BSC in May of 2015. We don't know how long it will take to implement this, but things are moving quickly. We think it would be good to have legislation in place, because industry will say that they want to be where something is already implemented. Chairman Dan Ruby: Since there are so many other states that already have legislation in place, what is it about North Dakota that would want to make industry look at North Dakota? Dave Blair: Probably because North Dakota is a rural state and a cold weather state. On the trucking side of things it may happen quicker than the vehicle side of things. They would want to make sure that the state wants to support this. Industry has told us that they would embrace having someplace in North Dakota as part of their testing grounds. There will have to be some sort of certification as well. Chairman Dan Ruby: So, you think that North Dakota will just be added as another testing ground? Dave Blair: Correct. Jim Holm submitted testimony to support HB 1065. See attachments# 5 and#6. There was no further supporting testimony at this time. (26:00 minutes) Glenn Jackson, Director, Driver's License Division, North Dakota Department of Transportation provided neutral testimony on HB 1065. See attachment# 4. House Transportation Committee HB 1065 01/09/15 Page 3 Chairman Dan Ruby: Was there a time frame in the bill? Glenn Jackson: The only concern is if the bill is passed and implemented the first of August, will we be expected at that time to promulgate rules to comply with the law? We don't know what we would promulgate. Representative Marvin Nelson: If I was driving down the highway today in North Dakota with a valid driver's license, would I be breaking any laws? Glenn Jackson: Are you driving the vehicle? Representative Marvin Nelson: I'm in control of the vehicle. Glenn Jackson: I would assume that if you are in control of the vehicle, that you are responsible for any activity that takes place because of your actions driving the vehicle. Representative Marvin Nelson: Would that be any different under this bill? Glenn Jackson: If we endorse someone to drive a vehicle in an autonomous fashion, we have to be able to evaluate and measure the ability of the driver to react and to take actions to go from autonomous to non-autonomous state. We don't know how to do that, so we couldn't endorse that driver at this time.