LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                        February 20, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Don Henderson, Chair         IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 117
         Committee on Jurisprudence                     By: Harris
         Senate
         Austin, Texas






FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on Senate Bill No.
117 (Relating to loss of a state professional license for failure
to pay child support.) this office has determined the following:

The bill would allow for revocation of professional and
occupational licenses for failure to pay child support. 
Licensing agencies would be required to conduct administrative
hearings to suspend licenses of delinquent child support
obligors.

The Office of the Attorney General did not estimate the gain to
Child Support Retained Collections resulting from professional
license revocation because the number of delinquent obligors who
have professional licenses is undetermined at this time. 
According to Comptroller of Public Accounts estimates, if
revocation and non-renewal of licenses were interpreted to
include sales tax and mixed beverage tax permittees and other
similar permittees currently collecting and remitting state tax
revenue, there could be an indeterminate loss of state tax
revenue.

It is assumed that the Office of the Attorney General currently
has adequate resources to implement the provisions of the bill.


The fiscal implication to the State cannot be determined.

No fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.    




 Source:  Office of the Attorney General, Comptroller of Public
Accounts
          LBB Staff: JK, JC, RR