LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 76th Regular Session
  
                              April 20, 1999
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Robert Junell, Chair, House Committee on
               Appropriations
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  HB3084 by Junell (relating to the creation and
               re-creation of funds and accounts in the state treasury,
               the dedication and rededication of revenue, and the
               exemption of unappropriated money from use for general
               governmental purposes), Committee Report 1st House,
               Substituted
  
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*  No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated from    *
*  the abolition of the Funds Review Advisory Committee. The impact      *
*  of provisions relating to the abolition of funds, accounts and        *
*  revenue dedications would depend on other actions of the              *
*  legislature.                                                          *
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The bill would abolish funds, accounts, and revenue dedications created
by the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, unless specifically exempted in
this bill.

If created by the Seventy-sixth Legislature, the following funds,
accounts and revenue dedications would be exempt from abolition:

The Blindness Education, Screening, and Treatment Program Account;
The Permanent Fund for Tobacco Education and Enforcement;
The Permanent Fund for Children and Public Health;
The Permanent Fund for Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Care;
The Permanent Fund for Rural Health Facility Capital Improvement;
The Permanent Health Fund for Higher Education;
The permanent endowment funds created for higher education institutions
in HB 1945;
The Permanent Fund for Higher Education Nursing and Allied Health
Programs;
Federal funds for which separate accounting is required by federal law;
Constitutional Funds, trust funds, bond funds, and pledge funds; and
Dedications of court costs and license plate fee revenue.

The bill would allow the Comptroller, as directed by the legislature, to
make reductions in dedicated accounts in the amounts by which estimated
revenues and unobligated balances exceeded appropriations on August 31,
2001.

The bill would abolish the Funds Review Advisory Committee.
  
Local Government Impact
  
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.
  
  
Source Agencies:   304   Comptroller of Public Accounts
LBB Staff:         JK, BB, RS