LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  May 1, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Fred M. Bosse, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 616
          Committee on Land and Resource Management                              By: Gutierrez
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB616 ( Relating 
to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas National 
Guard Armory Board to certain municipalities.) this office has 
detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB616-As Introduced   FN Revision 1
         

No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         
The bill would require the Texas National Guard Armory Board 
to transfer to four cities--Donna, Edinburg, McAllen and Pharr--real 
property (land and improvements) located in those cities, if 
that real property is no longer used by the Texas National Guard 
Armory Board as an armory.  The property must be fully paid 
for and free of liens, and all obligations incurred in connection 
with the acquisition and construction of the property must have 
been fully paid.  The cities would be required to use the property 
for governmental purposes only, and title to the property would 
revert to the Armory Board if the property were to be used for 
a non-governmental purpose. 

The estimates for the four properties 
are based on General Land Office appraisals.  The total for 
the properties equals $2,686,284.

         
 
          
Four cities would receive land and improvements valued as follows:

Edinburg: 
   $400,0000
McAllen:    1,611,284
Donna:          325,000
Pharr: 
           350,000

No significant fiscal implication to other 
units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   304   Comptroller of Public Accounts
                                         305   General Land Office and Veterans' Land Board
                                         406   National Guard Armory Board
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB ,RS