LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 2, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Bill Ratliff, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 874
          Committee on Finance                              By: Wentworth
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB874 ( Relating 
to certain reimbursements of expenses for members of the Texas 
State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists.) 
this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB874-As Introduced
         
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated. 
 
         

         
 
It is estimated that approximately $8,000 per year would be 
required to implement the provisions of this bill, which would 
authorize members of the Board of Examiners of Marriage and 
Family Therapists to receive per diem and reimbursement as set 
by the General Appropriations Act.  It is assumed that the Texas 
Department of Health could absorb these additional costs within 
existing resources.
          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   501   Department of Health
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,RR ,KF