LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  May 2, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Hugo Berlanga, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 2481, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
          Committee on Public Health                              By: Swinford
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB2481 ( Relating 
to faith-based chemical dependency treatment programs and counselors.) 
this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB2481-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.
         
 
          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   
                                         304   Comptroller of Public Accounts
                                         517   Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB ,MG