LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          April 24, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Keith Oakley, Chair          IN RE: Committee Substitute
         Committee on Public Safety             for
         House of Representatives                             HouseBill No.
         Austin, Texas                          1726









FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No.
1726 (relating to the criminal background information obtained by
the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse) 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 permit the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug
Abuse to access the criminal history of applicants for a chemical
dependency counselor's license, current licensees, and executive
officers and board members of a business entity licensed to
receive funds from the commission.

The Commission may charge fees, set as reasonably necessary, to
access such criminal history records. These fees are appropriated
to the Commission and are not credited to the Licensed Chemical
Dependency Counselor's Fund/Account (since a fund is not
mentioned, the General Revenue Fund is presumed to be the
recipient of the fee revenues). 

Since the amount of the fees and the number of criminal records
to be reviewed cannot be estimated at this time, the fiscal
impact to the General Revenue Fund cannot be determined.    




The fiscal implication to the State cannot be determined. 

No fiscal implication to units of local government is 
anticipated.


Source:   Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse
          LBB Staff: JK, GT, RR