LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 16, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Hugo Berlanga, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 3135
          Committee on Public Health                              By: Naishtat
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB3135 ( Relating 
to the application for mental retardation services by a guardian 
and to eligibility for guardianship.) this office has detemined 
the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB3135-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.
         
 
          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   655   Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation
                                         530   Department of Protective and Regulatory Services
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB ,MG