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