LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  March 18, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Edmund Kuempel, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 1941
          Committee on State Recreational Resources                              By: Place
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB1941 ( Relating 
to the automatic suspension of hunting and fishing licenses 
held by persons convicted of poaching.) this office has detemined 
the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB1941-As Introduced
         

No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         
The bill would automatically revoke the hunting or fishing license 
of a person convicted of hunting or fishing without the consent 
of the landowner.  The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department would 
be prohibited from issuing a hunting or fishing license to the 
convicted person for a period of one year after the date of 
revocation.  

The agency estimates the annual revenue loss 
to the Game, Fish and Water Safety Account 009 to be $(12,512). 
 The estimate is based on the number of similar convictions 
in FY 1996 multiplied by the $32 cost of a combination license.
         
 
Similar annual fiscal implications would continue as long as 
the provisions of the bill are in effect.
          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   802   Parks and Wildlife Department
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB ,DM