LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 3, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Kenneth Armbrister, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 1581
          Committee on State Affairs                              By: Carona
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB1581 ( Relating 
to registration and reporting by certain organizations; providing 
penalties.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB1581-As Introduced
         
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.
         
 
The bill would require the Attorney General to maintain a registry 
of all charities that solicit by telephone and require charities 
that register with the Attorney General to pay a filing fee 
of fifty dollars.  The fee would be dedicated for use by the 
Attorney General during the biennium of receipt, to administer 
the Act.  

The fiscal implication would depend on the number 
of charities required to file. Currently, there is no record 
of the number of charities that solicit by telephone in this 
state. However, the Attorney General anticipates that the cost 
of additional personnel required to implement the bill's provisions 
would be covered by the $50 filing fee. The Office would require 
additional appropriation authority to utilize the new receipts. 


          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   302   Office of the Attorney General
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,JD ,JC