LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 1, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Irma Rangel, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 2613
          Committee on Higher Education                              By: Cuellar
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB2613 ( Relating 
to the creation of the Faculty Enhancement Fund for Generalist 
Physicians.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB2613-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.
         

         
 
Similar annual fiscal implications The Coordinating Board has 
assumed that if funds are appropriated, the Program could be 
administered with 10 percent of the total appropriation as authorized 
in the bill.  The Board estimates that if $330,000 was appropriated 
in each fiscal year, the Program would cost $30,000 to administer 
and employ two part-time employees.  It is also assumed that 
the medical schools would encumber additional faculty salary 
costs.  Once the two-year grant period had ended, the institution 
would assume the amount equal to the annualized faculty enhancement 
award.  
          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   781   Higher Education Coordinating Board
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,LP ,CF