LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 22, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Hugo Berlanga, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 2319, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
          Committee on Public Health                              By: Van de Putte
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB2319 ( Relating 
to laws regulating the distribution and dispensation of controlled 
substances and to the enforcement of those laws.) this office 
has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB2319-Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
         
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.  The bill would require the Department of Public 
Safety to issue prescription stickers to practitioners, rather 
than the triplicate prescription forms that are now provided. 
 The bill would allow the department to charge a fee to cover 
costs associated with producing these stickers.
         
 
          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   
                                         405   Department of Public Safety
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB