LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 30, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Hugo Berlanga, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 3587
          Committee on Public Health                              By: Hirschi
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB3587 ( Relating 
to granting authority for certain County-Municipality Hospital 
Boards created under Section 265.031, Subtitle C, Title 4, Health 
and Safety Code to acquire, lease or manage other hospitals 
within the same county, in order to displace competition with 
regulation, maintain local control over health care and allow 
County-Municipality Hospital Boards to benefit from economies 
of scale.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB3587-As Introduced
         
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
          
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government 
is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   501   Department of Health
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB ,KF