LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 76th Regular Session
  
                              March 19, 1999
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Bob Hunter, Chair, House Committee on State,
               Federal & International Relations
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  HB1865  by Edwards (Relating to the operations of the
               Texas Emancipation Juneteenth Cultural and Historical
               Commission), As Introduced
  
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*  No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.        *
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The fiscal note assumes that under the new requirement to establish other
Juneteenth memorial monuments at appropriate locations throughout the
state, the Juneteenth Commission would establish the same number of
monuments as planned in the current biennium (one), and that costs
associated with this would be covered from existing funds.  The
requirement to prepare and distribute publications could result in
additional costs to the commission, however, because the commission did
not address the number of publications that might be produced or whether
costs would be recovered by charging for the publications, the fiscal
note assumes no significant fiscal impact.
  
Local Government Impact
  
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
  
  
Source Agencies:   
LBB Staff:         JK, TH, JH