LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                        February 28, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Keith Oakley, Chair          IN RE:  House Bill No. 235
         Committee on Public Safety                     By: Driver
         House of Representatives
         Austin, Texas






FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No.
235 (relating to emergency medical information services provided
through 9-1-1 services) this office has determined the following:

The bill would permit public safety answering points to provide
emergency medical information under certain conditions.  To
provide this information, employees must receive training, the
information must be easily communicated by telephone to persons
without training in emergency medical care, and the information
must be in the form contained in a manual to be developed by the
Board of Health.  The Board would be required to adopt a manual
of emergency medical information to be used by employees of the
public safety answering points and to adopt a protocol for the
delivery of emergency medical information.

Although this bill may have fiscal implications for local units
of government, they cannot be determined.  While public safety
answering points, which may be governmental units or under
contract to governmental units, are not required to provide
emergency medical information, those that choose to do so would
be required to bear the costs of training employees and
purchasing manuals.


No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.


Source:   Department of Health
          LBB Staff: JK, AZ, KF, RR