LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 21, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Eddie Lucio, Jr., Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 1425
          Committee on Intergovernmental Relations                              By: Nelson
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB1425 ( Relating 
to approval by voters of the establishment of certain county 
development districts.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB1425-As Introduced
         
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
          
This bill could result in increased confirmation election costs 
to county development districts, since the bill would require 
a commissioner precinct-wide election, rather than an election 
confined to the voters living in a district with fewer than 
100 registered voters.  Increased election costs would depend 
on the number of additional residents that would be included 
in an election.  The median cost of a local election has been 
calculated at $.40 per resident, based on data collected in 
a survey conducted by the Texas Association of Counties in December 
1996. 
          
   Source:            Agencies:   304   Comptroller of Public Accounts
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,TL