LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  May 2, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Judith Zaffirini, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 1309, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
          Committee on Health & Human Services                              By: Patterson,Jerry
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB1309 ( Relating 
to the regulation of the use of electroconvulsive therapy.) 
this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB1309-Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
         
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.
         
 
          
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government 
is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   
                                         655   Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB