LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 9, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable David Sibley, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 567, As Engrossed
          Committee on Economic Development                              By: Oliveira
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB567 ( Relating 
to the operation and administration of the state unemployment 
compensation system.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB567-As Engrossed
         
Implementing the provisions of the bill would result in a net 
impact of $0 to General Revenue Related Funds through the biennium 
ending August 31, 1999.
         
The bill would make no appropriation but could provide the legal 
basis for an appropriation of funds to implement the provisions 
of the bill.
         
 
Fiscal Analysis
 
This bill would allow the Texas Workforce Commission to use 
General Revenue Account 165 to fund enforcement activities related 
to the Chapter 51, 61 and 62 of the Labor Code.  Additionally, 
the bill provides for a less expensive method of notifying people 
who are delinquent in payments to the Commission.
 
Methodolgy
 
Section 10 of the bill allows the use of regular postage, instead 
of registered mail, to notify people who are delinquent on payments. 
 This would result in savings from postage costs.
The probable fiscal implications of implementing the provisions 
of the bill during each of the first five years following passage 
is estimated as follows:
 
Five Year Impact:
 
Fiscal Year Probable           Change in Number   
            Savings/(Cost)     of State                                                                   
            from Federal Funds Employees from                                                             
                               FY 1997                                                                    
            0555                                                                                           
       1998           $32,789               0.0                                                      
       1998            32,789               0.0                                                      
       2000            32,789               0.0                                                      
       2001            32,789               0.0                                                      
       2002            32,789               0.0                                                      
 
 
         Net Impact on General Revenue Related Funds:
 

 
              Fiscal Year      Probable Net Postive/(Negative)
                               General Revenue Related Funds
                                             Funds
               1998                   $0
               1999                    0
               2000                    0
               2001                    0
               2002                    0
 
Similar annual fiscal implications would continue as long as 
the provisions of the bill are in effect.
          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,TH