LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE
75th Regular Session
April 22, 1997
TO: Honorable Judith Zaffirini, Chair IN RE: Senate Bill No. 775
Committee on Health & Human Services By: Nixon Drew
Senate
Austin, Texas
FROM: John Keel, Director
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB775 ( Relating
to eligibility for public assistance benefits administered by
health and human services agencies.) this office has detemined
the following:
Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB775-As Introduced FN Revision 1
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 Department of Health did identify $92,943
in annual general revenue and $102,875 in federal block grant
fund costs that would need to be redirected toward increased
administrative expenses for eligibility verification in its
non-Medicaid Family Planning Services and Maternal and Child
Health Programs. Given that the language is permissive and
the size of its budget and available resources, it is anticipated
that the Department of Health can implement the requirements
within existing resources. In the event that some clients elect
not to go through the eligibility process, some savings in expenditures
may occur but such potential savings cannot be estimated. (This
estimate is based on revised information received from the Department
of Health on 4/22/97.)
Similar annual fiscal implications would continue as long as
the provisions of the bill are in effect.
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
Source: Agencies: 330 Rehabilitation Commission
340 Department on Aging
318 Commission for the Blind
655 Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation
529 Health and Human Services Commission
501 Department of Health
324 Department of Human Services
532 Interagency Council on Early Childhood Intervention
LBB Staff: JK ,BB ,AZ