LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD Austin, Texas FISCAL NOTE 74th Regular Session February 14, 1995 TO: Honorable Warren Chisum, Chair IN RE: House Bill No. 325 Committee on Environmental Regulation By: Rabuck House of Representatives Austin, Texas FROM: John Keel, Director In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No. 325 (Relating to requiring public notice and a public meeting before the issuance or renewal of a license or general license acknowledgment authorizing the storage of radioactive material.) this office has determined the following: The bill would make no appropriation but could provide the legal basis for an appropriation of funds to implement the provisions of the bill. The bill would require that a public meeting be held by the Texas Department of Health on any application or renewal application for a radioactive material license or general license acknowledgment that involves the storage of radioactive material. The bill would require that a notice be published by the license applicant of the application and the public meeting in the largest newspaper in the county in which the radioactive material will be stored. License applicants would include local government institutions and agencies that use and store radioactive materials. The costs to the Department of Health of holding public meetings on radioactive material storage licenses or license renewals would be recouped through an increase in licensing fees. The probable fiscal implication of implementing the provisions of the bill during each of the first five years following passage is estimated as follows: Fiscal Probable Cost Out Probable Revenue Change in Year of General Gain from General Number of State Revenue Fund 001 Revenue Fund 001 Employees from FY 1995 1996 $1,165,031 $1,165,031 13.0 1997 1,289,944 1,289,944 13.0 1998 1,289,944 1,289,944 13.0 1999 1,289,944 1,289,944 13.0 2000 1,289,944 1,289,944 13.0 Similar annual fiscal implications would continue as long as the provisions of the bill are in effect. The fiscal implication to units of local government cannot be determined. Source: Department of Health, Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Authority, Natural Resource Conservation Commission LBB Staff: JK, JB, DF