LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE
74th Regular Session
March 12, 1995
TO: Honorable Bill Sims, Chair IN RE: Senate Bill No. 742
Committee on Natural Resources By: Sims, Brown
Senate
Austin, Texas
FROM: John Keel, Director
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on Senate Bill No.
742 (Relating to the duties of the office of public interest
counsel of the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission.)
this office has determined the following:
The bill would prohibit the Texas Natural Resource Conservation
Commission's Office of Public Interest Counsel from being party
to a proceeding before the Commission.
The bill authorizes the Public Interest Counsel to inform
participants in proceedings before the Commission of the
procedural requirements for the proceeding and the status of the
proceeding.
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 Savings Change in
Year from General Number of State
Revenue Fund 001 Employees from
FY 1995
1996 $277,461 (7.0)
1997 277,461 (7.0)
1998 277,461 (7.0)
1999 277,461 (7.0)
2000 277,461 (7.0)
No fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.
Source: Natural Resource Conservation Commission
LBB Staff: JK, JB, DF