LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  March 6, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Judith Zaffirini, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 172, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
          Committee on Health & Human Services                              By: Zaffirini
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB172 ( Relating 
to coverage for childhood immunizations under certain health 
benefit plans.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB172-Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
         
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         
The bill would add Article 21.53F to the Insurance Code which 
would require that health benefit plans provide coverage for 
children for immunizations against certain diseases. The bill 
would require coverage for children from birth up to age six. 
The benefits required by this bill could not be made subject 
to a deductible, copayment, or coinsurance requirement; however, 
the bill does not prohibit the application of a deductible, 
copayment, or coinsurance requirement to another service provided 
at the same time as the immunization.
         
 
          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   327   Employees Retirement System
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB