LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 10, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable David Sibley, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 1915
          Committee on Economic Development                              By: Sibley
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB1915 ( Relating 
to the regulation of utilities.) this office has detemined the 
following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB1915-As Introduced
         
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated 
since all additional workload could be handled with existing 
agency resources.  
         
In addition, Section 1 of the bill would authorize the Public 
Utility Commission (PUC) to assess a fee to cover the cost of 
the agency's system of electronic access to rulemakings and 
contested case proceedings.  According to PUC, this would have 
no fiscal impact because it provides statutory authority to 
do what the agency currently does via a fee waiver from the 
General Service Commission.
         
 
          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   313   Department of Information Resources
                                         347   Texas Public Finance Authority
                                         473   Public Utility Commission of Texas
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,TH ,BK