LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          March 26, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Fred Hill, Chair             IN RE:  House Bill No. 943
         Committee on Urban Affairs                     By: Turner,
         House of Representatives               Sylvester
         Austin, Texas








FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No.
943 (relating to performance audits of certain metropolitan
transit authorities) 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 allow the Comptroller of Public Accounts to audit
certain metropolitan transit authorities in cities with 
populations of more than $1.2 million.  The audits could be
performed once every two years.

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                $250,000
                                      
          1997                       0
          1998                 250,000
                                      
                                      
                                      

        1999                         0

        2000                   250,000



       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:  Comptroller of Public Accounts
          LBB Staff: JK, MS, RR