LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  March 7, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Hugo Berlanga, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 723
          Committee on Public Health                              By: Dukes
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB723 ( Relating 
to informed consent before the performance of a hysterectomy.) 
this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB723-As Introduced
         
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.  The bill 
would modify the Health and Safety Code by requiring that physicians 
first obtain oral and written informed consent before the performance 
of a hysterectomy on a patient.  The exception would be when 
the hysterectomy is performed in a life-threatening situation 
in which the physician determines that prior informed consent 
is not possible.  
         

         
 
          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   501   Department of Health
                                         503   Board of Medical Examiners
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB ,AC