LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 17, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable David Sibley, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 1915, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
          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 fo utilities.) this office has detemined the 
following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB1915-Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
         
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
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 section would create no fiscal impact 
because it simply provides the statutory authority to do what 
the agency currently does via a fee waiver from the General 
Service Commission.  

Section 6 of the bill would require 
certain administrative penalties to be deposited to the credit 
of PUC.  Since no dedicated fund is specified or created in 
this section, the Comptroller assumes that these penalties would 
still be deposited into General Revenue.  

Section 7 of the 
bill would require PUC to conduct an educational program.  According 
to PUC, any additional workload created by Section 7 could be 
handled with existing PUC resources.
          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,TH ,BK