LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  May 18, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Hugo Berlanga, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 662, As Engrossed
          Committee on Public Health                              By: Moncrief
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB662 ( Relating 
to the unauthorized practice of chiropractic; providing civil 
and administrative penalties and injunctive relief.) this office 
has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB662-As Engrossed
         
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 Board of Chiropractic Examiners would be 
able to monitor whether an owner or operator of a chiropractic 
facility is licensed to practice chiropractic based on the information 
which they already collect.  In addition, the Board has recently 
begun to do compliance visits across the state and would be 
able to check whether an owner is a licensed chiropractor during 
the visit.
         
 
          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   302   Office of the Attorney General
                                         508   Board of Chiropractic Examiners
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB