LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE
74th Regular Session
May 1, 1995
TO: Honorable Ron Wilson, Chair IN RE: Committee Substitute
Committee on Licensing & for House
Administrative Procedures Bill No. 925
House of Representatives
Austin, Texas
FROM: John Keel, Director
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No.
925 (Relating to the regulation of geologists and geophysicists;
providing a civil and criminal penalty.) 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 establish a board for the examination,
registration, and discipline of geologists and geophysicists and
the certification of specialty geologists and geophysicists. The
powers delegated to the board by the bill would include adopting
and enforcing rules, setting fees, and hiring an executive
director and staff to carry out the provisions of the act. The
bill would also direct that all funds collected by the board be
deposited into a special fund to known as the "Geologists and
Geophysicists Fund" from which all expenses related to
administration and enforcement would be paid.
The bill provides that the board adopt rules no later than
November 30, 1996 and that a person would not have to obtain a
license until January 1, 1997. For the purposes of this
estimate, it is assumed that neither cost nor revenue would
accrue prior to adoption of rules.
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 Cost out Change in
Year Gain to the of the Geologists Number of State
Geologists and and Geophysicists Employees from
Geophysicists Fund Fund FY 1995
1996 $0 $0 .0
1997 1,147,933 994,316 15.0
1998 943,657 842,951 15.0
1999 962,567 842,951 15.0
2000 981,584 842,951 15.0
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: Legislative Budget Board
LBB Staff: JK, DF, BR, DF