LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  March 11, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Judith Zaffirini, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 618
          Committee on Health & Human Services                              By: Moncrief
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB618 ( Relating 
to the regulation of certain residential facilities; providing 
civil penalties.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB618-As Introduced
         
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         
The bill would make no appropriation but could provide the legal 
basis for an appropriation of funds to implement the provisions 
of the bill. 

The bill would require persons who establish 
or operate more than one licensed personal care facility to 
possess a license for each facility.  It would authorize the 
imposition of a civil penalty, from $1,000 to $10,000 per day, 
for violating this provision.  It would also permit the Department 
of Human Services to develop alternative remedies as necessary 
to administer the personal care facility licensing statute.

         
 
          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   324   Department of Human Services
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB ,NM