LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 11, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Harvey Hilderbran, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 1945
          Committee on Human Services                              By: Naishtat
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB1945 ( Relating 
to the establishment of caseload standards for certain employees 
of the Texas Department of Human Services or the Department 
of Protective and Regulatory Services.) this office has detemined 
the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB1945-As Introduced
         
No significant 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 implications of the bill would depend 
on caseload standards established by the Health and Human Services 
Commissioner.  Any normative caseload standard per worker could 
require the Department of Human Services and the Department 
of Protective and Regulatory Services to exceed their Full Time 
Equivalent (FTE) levels established by the legislature.  This 
would be a cost to the General Revenue Fund.
         
 
          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   
                                         324   Department of Human Services
                                         529   Health and Human Services Commission
                                         530   Department of Protective and Regulatory Services
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB ,PP