LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          April 30, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Robert Junell, Chair         IN RE: Committee Substitute
         Committee on Appropriations            for
         House of Representatives                              Senate Bill
         Austin, Texas                          No. 407
                                                            









FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on Senate Bill No.
407 (Relating to making emergency appropriations for distribution
of state money to school districts and certain public
institutions and commissions and to emergency reductions in the
current appropriations to the Texas Department of Health.) this
office has determined the following:


The bill would appropriate the following amounts from the General
Revenue Fund for fiscal year 1995:

1)  $305,000,000 to the Central Education Agency to fund certain
foundation school
      program payments;
2)  $13,744,133 to the Higher Education Coordinating Board to
fund enrollment and start-up
      costs at new campuses;
3)  $2,312,050 to the Higher Education Coordinating Board to fund
cost at
     South Texas Community College;


The bill would reduce appropriations from the General Revenue
Fund to the Department of Health for fiscal year 1995 by
$8,250,000.  From these reductions the following transfers and
appropriations would be made:    




1)  $4,000,000 would be transferred to the Disaster Contingency
Fund and appropriated to
       the Governor;
2)  $4,000,000 would be appropriated to the Texas Youth
Commission for fiscal year 1995 with
      the provsion that not more than $2,300,000 could be
expended without prior approval of the
      Governor with the advice of the Legislative Budget Board;
3)  $250,000 to the Department of Public Safety for paying
expenses related to the investion of
      the Texas Commission of Alcohol and Drug Abuse.

The payments to school districts from the appropriation above
will result in General Revenue Fund savings in fiscal year 1996.









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     
             Year   Cost/(Savings) to 
                       the  General   
                         Revenue      
                         Fund 001     
                                      
          1995            $321,056,183
          1996           (305,000,000)
                                      
          1997                       0
                                      
          1998                       0
          1999                       0
                                      
          2000                       0
                                      
                                      
                                      



       Source:   Legislative Budget Board
          LBB Staff: JK, RS, DF