LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          April 3, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Clyde Alexander, Chair       IN RE:  House Bill No. 2783
         Committee on Transportation                    By: Place
         House of Representatives
         Austin, Texas







FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No.
2783 (Relating to the conditional grant program of the Texas
Department of Transportation.) 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 expand the Texas Department of Transportation
Conditional Grant Program to include women, include occupations
other than civil engineering, allow for the expenditure of funds
for the program from the State Highway Fund and require that no
less than $400,000 in conditional grants be issued by the
Department annually.

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 
             Year   of  State Highway 
                         Fund 006     
                                      
          1996                $200,000
                                      
          1997                 200,000
                                      
                                      
                                      

        1998                   200,000

        1999                   200,000
        2000                   200,000



       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 Transportation
          LBB Staff: JK, ML, DF