LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          April 4, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Keith Oakley, Chair          IN RE:  House Bill No. 1448
         Committee on Public Safety                     By: Carter
         House of Representatives
         Austin, Texas







FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No.
1448 (relating to the regulation of certain personal protection
officers) 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 amend the Private Investigators and Private
Security Agencies Act by adding person protection officers and
personal protection authorizations.  The bill would provide the
requirements for obtaining a personal protection authorization.

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                of           Number of State 
                       to  General      General Revenue     Employees from 
                        Revenue             Fund 001           FY 1995     
                        Fund 001                                           
                                                                           
          1996                $50,000             $19,369               1.0
                                                                           
          1997                 50,000              19,369               1.0
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           

        1998                    50,000               19,369                1.0

        1999                    50,000               19,369                1.0
        2000                    50,000               19,369                1.0



       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:   Comptroller of Public Accounts, Board of Private
Investigators and
                          Private Security Agencies
          LBB Staff: JK, AM, RR