LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          March 26, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Hugo Berlanga, Chair         IN RE:  House Bill No. 1415
         Committee on Public Health                     By: McDonald
         House of Representatives
         Austin, Texas







FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No.
1415 (Relating to the detection and prevention of osteoporosis;
making an appropriation.) this office has determined the
following:

The bill would create the Advisory Council for the Prevention of
Osteoporosis and direct the commissioner of public health to
develop and implement a program to promote public awareness of
osteoporosis detection, prevention, and treatment.  The bill
would exempt the Advisory Council from provisions in Article
6253-33, Revised Statutes, relating to advisory committee
reimbursement.

The bill makes an appropriation of $250,000 from the General
Revenue Fund for each fiscal year in the biennium ending August
31, 1997, for the purposes outlined. 

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     Change in   
           Year      of  General     Number of State
                   Revenue Fund 001  Employees from 
                                         FY 1995    
                                                    
                                                    
                                                    

        1996                  $250,000               2.0

        1997                   250,000               2.0
        1998                   250,000               2.0

        1999                   250,000               2.0

        2000                   250,000               2.0



       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:   Department of Health
          LBB Staff: JK, KF, DF