LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 30, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Fred M. Bosse, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 3082, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
          Committee on Land and Resource Management                              By: Gray
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB3082 ( Relating 
to coastal erosion.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB3082-Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
         

No 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. 

This bill would create the Coastal Erosion 
Response Fund in the State Treasury to receive all money appropriated 
for the purposes of this bill and to receive money from other 
sources intended for erosion response activity.  Use of the 
fund would be limited to activities relating to the cause and 
control of shoreline erosion. 
         
 
          
Contingent upon appropriation to the General Land Office (GLO) 
for erosion response activities, the bill would allow local 
governmental entities to apply for and receive grant funding 
to conduct erosion response activities.  Local governments could 
use grant funding as a match in seeking other funding, however, 
the GLO may establish cost share requirements for any proposed 
project or grant.

Local governments may lose certain property 
from their tax rolls to the Permanent School Fund if the property 
becomes submerged due to erosion.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   304   Comptroller of Public Accounts
                                         305   General Land Office and Veterans' Land Board
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB ,NT