LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                           May 18, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Judith Zaffirini, Chair      IN RE:  House Bill No. 883,
         Committee on Health & Human Services                 as engrossed
         Senate                                         By: McDonald
         Austin, Texas








FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No.
883 (Relating to the regulation of certain nursing practices.)
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 requires the Board of Vocational Nurse Examiners to
distribute a newsletter, at least twice a year, to licensed
vocational nurses (LVNs) and their employers.  Assuming the
newsletter is distributed to 36,000 LVNs, the Board estimates the
cost per year to be $72,000.

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 
             Year      of  General    
                     Revenue Fund 001 
                                      
          1996                 $72,000
                                      
          1997                  72,000
          1998                  72,000
                                      
                                      
                                      

        1999                    72,000

        2000                    72,000



       Similar annual 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:   Board of Nurse Examiners, Board of Vocational Nurse
Examiners
          LBB Staff: JK, JF, DF