LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE
74th Regular Session
March 5, 1995
TO: Honorable Curtis Seidlits, Chair IN RE: House Bill No. 359
Committee on State Affairs By: Danburg
House of Representatives
Austin, Texas
FROM: John Keel, Director
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No.
359 (Relating to breast-feeding in public or private places,
including worksites, and to a sales tax exemption for breast
pumps.) 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 provide a mechanism for facilities adopting a
breast-feeding policy in conformance with guidelines to be
adopted by the Board of Health to be designated as "baby-
friendly." The Department of Health would be required to
establish a demonstration project in Travis County to provide
access to worksite breast-feeding for department employees who
are mothers with infants. The bill would take effect on October
1, 1995.
The bill would exempt breast pumps from the state sales tax. All
fiscal implications noted below are in association with this
provision.
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 Revenue Probable Revenue Probable Revenue
Year Loss to General Loss to Cities Loss to
Revenue Fund 001 Metropolitan
Transit
Authorities
1996 $154,000 $25,000 $11,000
1997 184,000 29,000 13,000
1998 187,000 30,000 13,000
1999 191,000 31,000 13,000
2000 196,000 32,000 14,000
Fiscal Probable Revenue
Year Loss to Counties
and Special
Districts
1996 $3,000
1997 4,000
1998 4,000
1999 4,000
2000 4,000
Similar annual fiscal implications would continue as long as the
provisions of the bill are in effect.
Source: Comptroller of Public Accounts, Department of Health
LBB Staff: JK, AZ, KF, DF