LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE
75th Regular Session
April 8, 1997
TO: Honorable Harvey Hilderbran, Chair IN RE: House Bill No. 1555, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
Committee on Human Services By: Greenberg
House
Austin, Texas
FROM: John Keel, Director
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB1555 ( Relating
to inspection of certain child-care facilities.) this office
has detemined the following:
Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB1555-Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
Implementing the provisions of the bill would result in a net
positive impact of $996,000 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. The bill would partially implement the Texas Performance
Review recommendation HHS 5 in Disturbing the Peace: The Challenge
of Change in Texas Government.
The bill would amend Chapter
42 of the Human Resources Code to require the Department of
Protective and Regulatory Services to coordinate monitoring
inspections of licensed day-care centers, licensed group day-care
homes, and registered family homes performed by state agencies
to eliminate redundant inspections. The bill would require
the department to form an interagency task force with the Department
of Health, the Department of Human Services, and the Workforce
Commission to develop an inspection protocol to coordinate inspections.
The
bill would require the department to establish, if feasible
using available information systems, a computerized database
containing inspection information from other state agencies
and political subdivisions of the state. The department would
be required to make this information available to state agencies
and political subdivisions of the state and may also provide
the information to the public.
Fiscal Analysis
According to estimates developed by the Comptroller, the bill
would result in a net savings to the general revenue fund.
The bill would require an additional one-half FTE.
Methodolgy
Costs:
The state would incur a cost for the database: $13,000
for each year.
Coordination of child-care facilities and
consolidation of forms would be achieved within appropriated
agency budgets.
Formation of the interagency task force and
development of the inspection protocol would be achieved within
appropriated agency budgets.
Savings:
Savings are based
on each agency's percentage of inspection time to be saved multiplied
by its total inspection budget. Savings would be achieved through
reductions to the following agency appropriations:
$247,023
from the Department of Protective and Regulatory Services
$254,895
from the Texas Workforce Commission
$9,082 from the Department
of Human Services
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 Probable Probable Revenue Change in Number
Savings/(Cost) Savings/(Cost) Gain/(Loss) from of State
from General from General Federal Funds Employees from
Revenue Fund Revenue Fund FY 1997
0001 0001 0555
1998 ($13,000) $511,000 $0 0.5
1998 (13,000) 511,000 0 0.5
2000 (13,000) 511,000 0 0.5
2001 (13,000) 511,000 0 0.5
2002 (13,000) 511,000 0 0.5
Net Impact on General Revenue Related Funds:
Fiscal Year Probable Net Postive/(Negative)
General Revenue Related Funds
Funds
1998 $498,000
1999 498,000
2000 498,000
2001 498,000
2002 498,000
Similar annual fiscal implications would continue as long as
the provisions of the bill are in effect.
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government
is anticipated.
Source: Agencies: 530 Department of Protective and Regulatory Services
304 Comptroller of Public Accounts
LBB Staff: JK ,BB