This fiscal note contains 11 pages. Officials with the Department of Economic Development-Division of Professional Registration and the Office of Prosecution Services assumed the proposal would have no fiscal impact on their agencies. DPR assumed the Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Landscape Architects Fund will reimburse the Professional Registration Fund for all expenses, and that new licensing will commence in FY 2002. As such, Oversight has adjusted the costs shown in the fiscal note to .75 FTE to more accurately reflect the incremental costs of the proposal. Additionally, Oversight assumed that the new employee will be placed in existing office space, and has therefore eliminated the rent expenditure.
Oversight assumes any additional workload can be absorbed by existing staff.
If not, additional FTE may be requested through the appropriations process. For FY 2002, DPR assumed only the ten month equivalent of the temporary license revenue estimated. All additional licensees were to be handled with existing staff. Each board was expected to meet four times per year, two days per meeting. DPR assumed all licensees would be processed by existing staff, noting that other proposals could have a cumulative effect of requiring additional appropriations.