LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 26, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable J.E. "Buster" Brown, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 1136, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
          Committee on Natural Resources                              By: Wentworth
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB1136 ( Relating 
to the authority of a political subdivision to prepare and implement 
a regional habitat conservation plan or habitat conservation 
plan or to enter into a conservation agreement.) this office 
has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB1136-Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
         

No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         
The bill would require the Parks and Wildlife Commission to 
approve a conservation agreement between a unit of local government 
and the federal government.  The bill also would prescribe requirements 
for and authority of units of local government to regulate wildlife 
through the development, financing and implementation of a habitat 
conservation plan.  Political subdivisions would be prohibited 
from requiring a person to pay a mitigation fee to a plan participant. 
 Consequently, funding for a plan would have to be provided 
by other sources, most likely through bonds, which would require 
a local vote.  The impact to units of local government would 
vary, depending on the unit of local government's ability to 
generate funding for the plan.
         
 
          
   Source:            Agencies:   
                                         802   Parks and Wildlife Department
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB ,DM