LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  May 1, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Kenneth Armbrister, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 32, As Engrossed
          Committee on State Affairs                              By: Greenberg
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB32 ( Relating 
to primary election dates and procedures and related dates, 
deadlines, and procedures.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB32-As Engrossed
         
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
Fiscal Analysis

The bill would change various election dates. 
The bill would take effect September 1, 1997.

Methodology

Primary 
and runoff elections would be conducted on a Saturday instead 
of the current Tuesday, a time when most public buildings are 
open.  Currently, there usually is not a cost for the use of 
public buildings for polling locations.  

The bill would 
provide that, if the election day is a day on which the public 
building is usually not open,  a reasonable charge may be made 
only for the reimbursement for actual expenses resulting from 
the use of the building, excluding rent.  It is not expected 
that these charges would be significant.
          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
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                      LBB Staff:   JK ,JD ,PE ,JC