LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  February 25, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Rene Oliveira, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 425
          Committee on Economic Development                              By: Raymond
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB425 ( Relating 
to the policies of state agencies regarding work and family 
issues.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB425-As Introduced
         
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         
The bill would amend Section 81, Labor Code, to require two 
members of the Work and Family Policy Advisory Committee to 
be representatives of state agencies and one to be a member 
of the Child Care Development Board.

The bill would also 
require the Texas Workforce Commission to employ a work-family 
facilitator to assist state agencies with establishing work 
policies that allow employees to address both work and family 
responsibilities.  Costs related to the facilitator would be 
funded by annually assessing each state agency, other than an 
institution of higher education, 75 cents for each full-time 
equivalent employee (FTE) employed by that agency.  

As of 
May 31, 1996, Texas state government had 153,985 FTEs, excluding 
higher education employees.  The annual fee of 75 cents would 
provide more than $115,000 in funding and would be deposited 
in the Work and Family Policies Fund, a dedicated account.  
It is assumed that the 75 cents per FTE assessment would come 
out of current agency appropriations and would not represent 
an additional cost to the General Revenue Fund or other funds.
         
 
          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   304   Comptroller of Public Accounts
                                         320   Texas Workforce Commission
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,TH