LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          March 14, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Edmund Kuempel, Chair        IN RE:  House Bill No. 1390
         Committee on State Recreational                By: Saunders
         Resources
         House of Representatives
         Austin, Texas







FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No.
1390 (Relating to requiring a quail stamp for hunting quail;
providing a 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 require a person hunting quail to possess a quail
stamp.  The Parks and Wildlife Department would issue the stamp,
and set the fee at $7 or more.  The Department would also be
permitted to issue and set an amount to be charged for a
nonhunting edition of the stamp.  The bill would provide that an
agent who sells the stamp be permitted to retain fifty cents of
the fee as a collection fee for the hunting edition, and an
amount set by Parks and Wildlife for the nonhunting edition.

The bill would create the Quail Stamp Account as a separate
account in the General Revenue Fund.  The bill would exempt the
Quail Stamp Account from loss of dedication.  Money in the
account could only be spent for research, management and
protection of quail, or acquisition, lease, and development of
quail habitat.

The bill would require the Parks and Wildlife Commission to
establish an advisory committee to assist the commission in
regulating the expenditures from the fund.  A member of the
advisory committee would not be entitled to compensation, but    




would be entitled to reimbursement for travel expenses.  The bill
does not establish the number of members to be appointed to the 
advisory committee, therefore, costs related to advisory
committee travel expenses cannot be determined.

The Parks and Wildlife Department would incur printing costs of
approximately $25,000 per year.

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 
          Year      Gain to the          of  General    
                   General Revenue    Revenue Fund 001, 
                  Fund 001,  Quail       Quail Stamp    
                   Stamp Account           Account      
                                                        
          1996            $1,848,000             $25,000
          1997             1,848,000              25,000
                                                        
          1998             1,848,000              25,000
                                                        
          1999             1,848,000              25,000
          2000             1,848,000              25,000
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        

       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:   Comptroller of Public Accounts, Parks and Wildlife
Department
          LBB Staff: JK, PVT, DF