LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  March 18, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Judith Zaffirini, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 662
          Committee on Health & Human Services                              By: Moncrief
          Senate
          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 
penalties and injunctive relief.) this office has detemined 
the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB662-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 Office of the Attorney General anticipates 
that any legal work resulting from this bill could be reasonably 
absorbed with current resources.  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 ,MG