LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  May 31, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Bob Bullock            Honorable James E. "Pete" Laney
          Lieutenant Governor                Speaker of the House
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB1107 ( relating 
to the continuation and functions of the State Preservation 
board) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB1107-Conference Committee Report
         
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
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
The bill would continue the 
agency for 10 years, setting the date for the next Sunset review 
as September 1, 2007.  In addition, the bill would allow the 
Governor, Lt. Governor, or Speaker of the House to designate 
a representative to act on the board member's behalf during 
a board meeting.

The bill would authorize the agency to develop 
and construct a state history museum in the Capitol complex.

METHODOLOGY
The 
State Preservation Board is subject to the provisions of the 
Texas Sunset Act, and unless continued by the 75th Legislature, 
will be abolished September 1, 1997.  Funding for the State 
Preservation Board is included in the General Appropriations 
bill, as introduced, and is contingent upon passage of H.B. 
1107 or similar legislation.  The General Appropriations bill, 
as adopted by the House and the Senate, would provide $4,920,589 
in general revenue funding and 75.5 employees in each fiscal 
year of the 1998-99 biennium.
          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
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