LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 23, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Tom Craddick, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 3319
          Committee on Ways & Means                              By: Horn
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB3319 ( Relating 
to the dissolution of certain development districts.) this office 
has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB3319-As Introduced
         
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
Fiscal Analysis
The bill would require a county commissioners 
court to order a referendum election on the dissolution of a 
county development district upon the receipt and certification 
of a petition to dissolve the district.  The bill would also 
require the commissioners court to order the dissolution of 
the district upon passage of the referendum.  The bill would 
take effect immediately. 

Methodology
Current law allows 
dissolution of a county development district, but does not provide 
for petition and referendum on the question of dissolution of 
the district.  The Texas Association of Counties, the Secretary 
of State's Elections Division and the Comptroller's Tax Allocation 
Division were contacted for input on the fiscal impact of the 
bill.  No fiscal impact to a county would be expected other 
than the cost of holding a referendum election in that county.
 
Local
The 
fiscal impact to local governments would vary depending on which 
counties would choose to hold referendum elections on the question 
of dissolution of the county development district.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   304   Comptroller of Public Accounts
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,RR ,SM