LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 2, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Fred M. Bosse, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 3082
          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 Erosion Planning and Response Act.) this office has detemined 
the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB3082-As Introduced
         

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. 

Contingent upon legislative appropriation for 
coastal erosion planning and response, the bill would provide 
the General Land Office (GLO) with the authority to carry out 
activities set out in the bill.  This bill would repeal the 
current statutes on coastal erosion and create a new subchapter, 
the Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act.  

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.  In addition, grants could be issued to local governments 
for erosion response activities.  

The bill would authorize 
the promulgation rules for erosion response within the coastal 
zone.  The bill would provide for conducting, filing and public 
notification requirements for coastal boundary surveys.   GLO 
would be required to submit a biennial report to the Legislature 
on coastal erosion planning and response activities.

Landowner 
consent would be needed before erosion response activities are 
undertaken on private property or the Permanent School Fund 
(PSF) land.  The bill would provide for immunity from lawsuits 
and liability to the state and the GLO rising from erosion response 
activities conducted; the bill would, however, provide for judicial 
review of rights affected by certain erosion response activities. 
 

The bill would require proof of claim when a person claims 
title to PSF land as a result of certain changes within the 
coastal zone.  The bill would provide for corrections in local 
tax rolls for instances when property becomes submerged due 
to erosion and title to land is vested from a landowner to the 
Permanent School Fund. 

The bill would become effective immediately. 
 
         
 
          
Contingent upon appropriation to the GLO for erosion response 
activities, the bill would allow local governmental entities 
to apply for and receive grant funding to conduct erosion response 
activities.  The bill would allow a local government to use 
grant funding as a match in seeking other funding.  The GLO, 
may however, establish cost share requirements for any proposed 
project or grant.

Local governments may lose certain property 
from their tax rolls to the PSF 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