LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 1, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Judith Zaffirini, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 1763
          Committee on Health & Human Services                              By: Moncrief
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB1763 ( Relating 
to the authority of the Texas Department of Human Services to 
contract for Medicaid-certified beds in nursing facilities.) 
this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB1763-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 number of additional beds eligible to be 
Medicaid certified, per this bill, is expected to be insignificant 
relative to the number of existing Medicaid certified beds.
         
 
          
 No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   324   Department of Human Services
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB ,PP