LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 76th Regular Session
  
                            February 19, 1999
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Jane Nelson, Chair, Senate Committee on Health
               Services
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  SB94  by Moncrief (Relating to home health services.), 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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*  It is assumed that new responsibilities the bill would assign to      *
*  state agencies could be accomplished within existing resources.       *
*  It is possible that some fiscal impact could result from new          *
*  language instructing the Health and Human Services Commission to      *
*  take various factors such as quality and cost-effectiveness of        *
*  services into consideration in rate setting.                          *
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Local Government Impact
  
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
  
  
Source Agencies:   
LBB Staff:         JK, TP, KF