LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  May 14, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Bill Ratliff, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 1107, Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted
          Committee on Finance                              By: Telford
          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-Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted
         
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 a member 
of the board 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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