LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 14, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Ron E. Lewis, Chair            IN RE:  House Joint Resolution
                                                                No. 73
          Committee on County Affairs                              By: Chisum
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HJR73 ( Proposing 
a constitutional amendment authorizing counties to maintain 
private roads that are used by public school buses.) this office 
has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HJR73-As Introduced
         
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated, other than 
the cost of publication.

The cost to the state for publication 
of the resolution is $71,000.
         

         
 
          
A county that chooses to maintain private roads, as a result 
of the approval of this resolution by voters on November 4, 
1997, would incur per-mile maintenance costs similar to the 
cost associated with maintaining county-owned roads.  The total 
cost to a county would depend on the number of miles of private 
roads such a county chose to maintain. 
          
   Source:            Agencies:   
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,TL