LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD Austin, Texas FISCAL NOTE 74th Regular Session April 12, 1995 TO: Honorable Ron Wilson, Chair IN RE: Committee Substitute Committee on Licensing & for House Administrative Procedures Bill No. 1519 House of Representatives Austin, Texas FROM: John Keel, Director In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No. 1519 (relating to the licensing and regulation of licensed hypnotherapists) 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 amends the Department of Licensing and Regulation's enabling statute and establishes the hypnotherapist advisory council. The advisory council would be exempt from Article 6252- 33 which regulates advisory boards and would not fall under the authority of the department. The department would enter into a contract with the advisory council to administer and enforce the provisions of the bill and rules of the council. The bill would require the department to license/register Hypnotherapists and provides for administrative penalties. The department would also be required to maintain a registry of licensed hypnotherapists. Persons who are licensed by another state agency and perform any procedure described in the bill are exempt. Fees would be set by the council and would be deposited in the hypnotherapist fund as established in the bill. The bill does not indicate whether this fund is inside or outside the State Treasury. The application fee is set at $150, renewal fees are projected at $70/year. Expenses of both the advisory council and the department shall be paid from the fund. It is assumed that approximately 5,000 hypnotherapists that would be licensed under the bill. The Act is effective September 1, 1995. Licenses do not have to be issued until December 1995. 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 Probable Revenue Change in Year of Hypnotherapist Gain to Number of State Fund Hypnotherapist Employees from Fund FY 1995 1996 $342,800 $750,000 8.0 1997 342,800 380,000 8.0 1998 342,800 365,000 8.0 1999 342,800 365,000 8.0 2000 342,800 365,000 8.0 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, Department of Licensing and Regulation LBB Staff: JK, LR, DF