LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 17, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Kenneth Armbrister, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 1852, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
          Committee on State Affairs                              By: Armbrister
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB1852 ( relating 
to the creation and operation of the Texas Affordable Housing 
Task Force.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB1852-Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
         
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
This bill would establish the Texas Affordable Housing Task 
Force.  The responsibility of the task force is to evaluate 
regulations and policies relating to housing and to identify 
those regulations and policies that unnecessarily increase the 
cost of constructing or rehabilitating affordable housing, create 
barriers to affordable housing opportunities, or limit the availability 
of affordable housing.  The task force would be required to 
submit a report summarizing its findings and recommendations 
for revising the regulations and policies to promote the availability 
of affordable housing.  The task force would be abolished upon 
the report's submittal in December 1998.  It is assumed that 
the Department of Housing and Community Affairs would absorb 
staff support requirements to the task force.
          


No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,JD ,RA