LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          March 21, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Judith Zaffirini, Chair      IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 96
         Committee on Health & Human Services           By: Moncrief
         Senate
         Austin, Texas






FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on Senate Bill No.
96 (Relating to mental health proceedings and the administration
of psychoactive medications.) this office has determined the
following:

This bill amends the mental health code to clarify that the
county or district attorney shall represent the state in
medication capacity hearings; that refusal of medication
initiates the physician petition for a medication capacity
hearing; and clarifies that individuals committed under the Code
of Criminal Procedures (section 46.02 and 46.03) can not access
the medication capacity hearing process.


No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

The fiscal implication to  units of local government cannot be
determined.


Source:   Office of Court Administration, Texas Department of
Mental Health and Mental Retardation
          LBB Staff: JK, GT, DF