LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 76th Regular Session
  
                              April 6, 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), As Introduced
  
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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 Girl Scout Account;
The Blindness Education, Screening, and Treatment Program Account;
The Permanent Tobacco Education and Enforcement Fund:
The Permanent Children and Public Health Fund;
The Permanent Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Care Fund;
The Permanent Rural Health Facility Capital Improvement Fund;
Federal funds for which separate accounting is required by federal law;
Constitutional Funds, trust funds, bond funds, and pledge funds; and
Revenue for court costs.

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:   
LBB Staff:         JK, BB, RS