LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 76th Regular Session
  
                              March 30, 1999
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Patricia Gray, Chair, House Committee on Public
               Health
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  HB2565  by Christian (Relating to payment for health care
               services provided to certain persons by public hospitals
               and  hospital districts.), As Introduced
  
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*  No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.        *
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*  The bill would make no appropriation but could provide the legal      *
*  basis for an appropriation of funds to implement the provisions of    *
*  the bill.                                                             *
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Local Government Impact
  
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.  The bill would allow a public hospital or hospital
district that provides health care services to a patient the hospital
suspects is an eligible county resident for the purposes of the Indigent
Health Care and Treatment Act to require the patient to provide certain
information and authorize the release of certain information so that the
hospital district or public hospital can submit a claim.
  
  
Source Agencies:   
LBB Staff:         JK, TP, KF