LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 10, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Eddie Lucio, Jr., Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 1878, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
          Committee on Intergovernmental Relations                              By: Wentworth
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB1878 ( Relating 
to authorizing certain municipal utility districts to repair 
and maintain streets and to issue bonds for that purpose.) this 
office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB1878-Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
         

No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
          
The bill would allow certain municipal utility districts to 
maintain and repair streets and to issue bonds for those purposes. 
 Voter approval would be required to issue such bonds.

Because 
an election for the issuance of bonds to repair or maintain 
streets would be held on the uniform election date in November, 
and most such elections would therefore be held in conjunction 
with previously scheduled elections, it is not anticipated that 
the election requirement will result in significant costs to 
municipal utility districts.  As a result of this bill's passage, 
other units of local government responsible for road maintenance 
and repair could reduce allocations to such activities in areas 
where a municipal utility district assumes such responsibilities. 
  
          
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                      LBB Staff:   JK ,TL ,BB