LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  February 12, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Judith Zaffirini, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 264, Committee Report 1st House
          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-Committee Report 1st House
         
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.
          
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                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB