LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  March 20, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Warren Chisum, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 473, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
          Committee on Environmental Regulation                              By: Howard
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB473 ( relating 
to the licensing of waste haulers by certain counties) this 
office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB473-Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
         

No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
          
This bill would allow a counties with a population under 375,000 
to license waste haulers, impose licensing fees, and enforce 
licensing provisions.  Licensing would enable such counties 
to reduce illegal dumping in unincorporated areas.

Because 
the bill would limit the amount a county collects in licensing 
fees to the amount needed to fund the licensing program, no 
significant implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
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                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB ,TL