LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  May 30, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Bob Bullock            Honorable James E. "Pete" Laney
          Lieutenant Governor                Speaker of the House
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB2850 ( Relating 
to the exclusion from emergency service districts and rural 
fire prevention districts of certain territory subject to ad 
valorem assessments.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB2850-Conference Committee Report
         
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
          
The cost associated with an election held solely on the question 
of excluding territory from a district would depend on the number 
of residents living in the territory to be excluded.  The median 
cost of a local election has been calculated at $.40 per resident, 
based on data collected in a survey conducted by the Texas Association 
of Counties in December 1996.  

A district which excludes 
territory could experience reduced revenues, depending on the 
amount of ad valorem taxes collected in an area to be excluded. 
 A district which excludes territory, however, could realize 
cost savings resulting from the reduction in size of the district's 
service area.
          
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                      LBB Staff:   JK ,TL