LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 30, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Hugo Berlanga, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 403, As Engrossed
          Committee on Public Health                              By: Zaffirini
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB403 ( Relating 
to funding of the Medicaid disproportionate share program through 
an assessment imposed against certain hospitals and hospital 
districts.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB403-As Engrossed
         
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
          
The bill would repeal Chapter 2, Acts of the 72nd Legislature, 
1st Called session, 1991 (Article 4494q-2, Vernon's Civil Statutes), 
relating to the funding of the Medicaid Disproportionate Share 
Program through an assessment on hospitals and hospital districts. 
 The provider tax in question has become inconsistent with federal 
law and is no longer assessed.

No fiscal implication to units 
of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   324   Department of Human Services
                                         304   Comptroller of Public Accounts
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB ,PP