LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 2, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Hugo Berlanga, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 2573
          Committee on Public Health                              By: Berlanga
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB2573 ( Relating 
to fees assessed for the regulation of athletic trainers and 
the audit of certain financial transactions regarding that regulation.) 
this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB2573-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.  The bill would authorize the Advisory Board of 
Athletic Trainers to set fees as reasonable and necessary to 
collect sufficient revenue to cover costs.  The Department of 
Health would be required to receive and account for fees received, 
which would be deposited to the credit of a new dedicated account 
in the General Revenue Fund, entitled the licensed athletic 
trainers account.

         
 
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:   501   Department of Health
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB ,KF