LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                           May 6, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Robert Junell, Chair, Chair  IN RE: Committee Substitute
         Committee on Appropriations            for
         House of Representatives                              House Bill
         Austin, Texas                          No. 3050
                                                        By: Junell









FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No.
3050 (Relating to exemption of certain funds from consolidation,
re-creation of certain consolidated funds, preservation of
certain dedications of revenue, and exemption of certain
unappropriated amounts from use for general governmental
purposes.) this office has determined the following:

The bill would exempt certain accounts and revenue sources from
various provisions of fund consolidation.  The bill would result
in a reduction in the amount available for certification from the
General Revenue Fund by $69,220,000 in the 1996-97 biennium.

The certification loss shown below results from the exemption of
revenue deposited by statute to the State Highway Fund and the
Children's Trust Fund from the provisions of fund consolidation
that would have required those revenues to be deposited to the
General Fund.  The estimates represent the total amount of
Highway Fund and Children's Trust Fund revenue affected,
independent of House Bill 1, the General Appropriations act.  In
House Bill 1, as passed by the House, $36,037,964 in general
revenue consolidated is appropriated to the Department of
Transportation through line item appropriations in Article VI and
appropriation of receipts in Article IX.  If the revenue
rededicated to the Highway Fund is used in lieu of the
Transportation Department general revenue consolidated
appropriations, the net certification loss from C.S.H.B. 3050    




would be reduced to $33,182,036 for the 1996-97 biennium.

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 Reduction
             Year     in the Amount   
                      Available for   
                    Certification from
                       the  General   
                     Revenue Fund 001 
                                      
          1996             $34,188,000
          1997              35,032,000
                                      
          1998              35,919,000
                                      
          1999              36,851,000
          2000              37,829,000
                                      
                                      
                                      




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:   Comptroller of Public Accounts
          LBB Staff: JK, RS, DF