LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  February 7, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Judith Zaffirini, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 264
          Committee on Health & Human Services                              By: Zaffirini
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
         In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB264 ( Relating to the treatment 
of persons with mental illness.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB264-As Introduced
         
             No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.  The bill would amend a section 
of the enabling statute of the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation.  This 
change in statute would allow the TDMHMR Board to establish, by rule, procedures for a 
treatment methods advisory committee rather than having those rules for the advisory 
committee be codified within the statute.  This bill is not expected to add to the Department 
of Mental Health and Mental Retardation's expenditures because rules adopted by the Board 
under these provisions would be alternatives to procedures which currently exist.
         
         
         
 
          
             No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   503   Board of Medical Examiners
                                         655   Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB ,AC