LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          April 19, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Judith Zaffirini, Chair      IN RE: Committee Substitute
         Committee on Health & Human Services                  for Senate
         Senate                                 Bill No. 1485
         Austin, Texas









FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on Senate Bill No.
1485 (relating to the child fatality review team committee and
child fatality review teams) this office has determined the
following:

The bill would make no appropriation but could provide the legal
basis for an appropriation of funds to implement the provisions
of the bill.

This bill would establish a child fatality review team committee
within the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory
Services.  The committee would perform annual statistical studies
of the incidence and causes of child deaths, using data reported
to the Texas Department of Health.  It would also perform other
duties, such as approving the creation of local child fatality
review teams and publishing annual reports.

The bill would require the Texas Department of Protective and
Regulatory Services to provide staff to assist the committee in
performing its duties.  Members of the committee would be
reimbursed for their travel expenses.

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 Cost Out      Change in   
             Year      of  General      Number of State
                     Revenue Fund 001   Employees from 
                                            FY 1995    
                                                       
          1996                $254,193              2.5
          1997                 237,207              2.5
                                                       
          1998                 237,207              2.5
                                                       
          1999                 237,207              2.5
          2000                 237,207              2.5
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       






Similar annual fiscal implications would continue as long as the
provisions of the bill are in effect.

No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.


Source:   Department of Protective and Regulatory Services
          LBB Staff: JK, NM, DF