LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  January 31, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Judith Zaffirini, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 115
          Committee on Health & Human Services                              By: Zaffirini
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
         In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB115 ( Relating to
certain investigations conducted by the Department of Protective and
Regulatory Services.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB115-As Introduced
         
             No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

This bill would amend Section 48.081 of the Human Resources Code to provide
that the Department of Protective and Regulatory Services, by rule, may
assign priorities to an investigation of abuse, neglect or exploitation in a
state mental health/mental retardation facility or a community mental
health/mental retardation center.

The department estimates that it will cost approximately $10,000 to re-program
the automated system so that caseworkers can assign priorities to these
investigations.  In the event that a decision is made to establish a priority-based
system, this one-time cost would not be significant.
         
         
         
 
          
             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 ,NM