LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  January 27, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Rodney Ellis, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 52
          Committee on Jurisprudence                              By: Shapiro
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
         In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB52 ( Relating to the
validity of adoption orders.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB52-As Introduced
         
             This bill would amend Subsection 162.012(a) of the Family Code to
provide that an adoption order is subject to attack for six rather than 24
months after the order is rendered.

No fiscal implications to the State are anticipated.
         
         
         
 
Similar annual fiscal implications would continue as long as the provisions of
the bill are in effect.

          
             No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   530   Department of Protective and Regulatory Services
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,PE ,NM