LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE
74th Regular Session
March 19, 1995
TO: Honorable Harvey Hilderbran, Chair IN RE: House Bill No. 648
Committee on Public Health By: Cain
House of Representatives
Austin, Texas
FROM: John Keel, Director
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No.
648 (Relating to the personal needs allowance for certain
Medicaid recipients who are residents of long-term care
facilities.) 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 the Department of Human Services to set a
personal needs allowance of not less than $40.00 a month for a
resident of a convalescent or nursing home or related institution
under Chapter 242, Health and Safety Code, personal care
facility, ICF-MR facility, or other similar long-term care
facility who receives medical assistance. The effective date of
the legislation is September 1, 1995 and applies only to a
personal needs allowance paid on or after that date.
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 Matching Probable Cost Out
Year Cost Out of of Federal Funds
General Revenue 555
1996 $3,542,222 $4,472,218
1997 3,614,614 4,488,026
1998 3,686,943 4,577,817
1999 3,760,730 4,669,390
2000 3,835,976 4,762,744
Similar fiscal implications would continue as long as the
provisions of the bill are in effect.
No fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.
Source: Department of Human Services
LBB Staff: JK, MU, DF