LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 14, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Kenneth Armbrister, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 1380
          Committee on State Affairs                              By: Ellis
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB1380 ( Relating 
to the creation of a state business daily to give notice before 
a state agency makes a procurement with a value that exceeds 
$25,000.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB1380-As Introduced
         
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
Fiscal Analysis

The bill would require the creation of a 
state business daily to give notice before a state agency makes 
a procurement with a value that exceeds $25,000.  

Methodology

The 
fee for the business daily would cover only the costs of making 
the printed daily available.  Because the printing and distribution 
costs would be covered by subscription fees, there should be 
no net fiscal impact from this part of the daily's cost.  Any 
increase in cost or workload to gather and prepare information 
for the daily and to make it available on the Internet could 
likely be absorbed within current agency resources.
          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   303   General Services Commission
                                         304   Comptroller of Public Accounts
                                         465   Department of Commerce
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,JD ,RN