LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  March 26, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Eddie Lucio, Jr., Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 974
          Committee on Intergovernmental Relations                              By: Carona
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB974 ( Relating 
to the recovery of environmental inspection, removal, and remediation 
costs by a taxing unit that purchases real property at an ad 
valorem tax sale.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB974-As Introduced
         
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
          
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government 
is anticipated.  

In certain instances, this bill would allow 
a municipality to recover costs associated with environmental 
inspections of properties when such properties are sold.

          
   Source:            Agencies:   
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,TL