LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 26, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Fred M. Bosse, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 1609, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
          Committee on Land and Resource Management                              By: Turner,Bob
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB1609 ( Relating 
to the authority of a political subdivision to prepare and implement 
a regional habitat conservation plan or habitat conservation 
plan or to enter into a conservation agreement.) this office 
has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB1609-Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
         

No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
          
The bill would require the Parks and Wildlife Commission to 
approve a conservation agreement made between a unit of local 
government and the federal government.  The bill also would 
prescribe requirements for and authority of units of local government 
to regulate wildlife through the development, financing and 
implementation of a habitat conservation plan.  The impact to 
units of local government would vary. 
          
   Source:            Agencies:   
                                         802   Parks and Wildlife Department
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB ,DM