LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  March 24, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable J.E. "Buster" Brown, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 1465
          Committee on Natural Resources                              By: Brown
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB1465 ( Relating 
to the handling and testing of certain animals; providing a 
penalty.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB1465-As Introduced
         

No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated. 
 
         
The bill would repeal the statutory rate paid to compensate 
owners for cattle that must be destroyed as a result of exposure 
or infection from tuberculosis and would authorize the Animal 
Health Commission to set the indemnity rate.  The commission 
estimates that an increase in the indemnity from a statutory 
range of $35 to $75 to a single indemnity of $250 would result 
in a cost to the General Revenue Fund of $2,510 per year.
         
 
          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   554   Animal Health Commission
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB ,DM