LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 76th Regular Session
  
                              April 18, 1999
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Patricia Gray, Chair, House Committee on Public
               Health
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  SB95 by Moncrief (relating to studies and strategic plans
               concerning the delivery of long-term care, community
               services, and certain health services), Committee Report
               2nd House, as amended
  
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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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The bill would require studies and strategic plans for the delivery of
long-term care, community services and other health services.  The bill
would also direct the Texas Rehabilitation Commission to form a work
group on brain injury rehabilitation services which would include
representatives of the developers and providers of brain injury
rehabilitation facilities and consumers of brain injury services.
Reimbursement for travel and other expenses of the work group would
require authority in the General Appropriations Act.
  
Local Government Impact
  
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.
  
  
Source Agencies:   318   Commission For The Blind, 324   Dept Of Human
                   Services, 330   Rehabilitation Commission, 332   Dept
                   Housing-Comm Affairs, 335   Comm - Deaf/Hear
                   Impaired, 340   Department On Aging, 501
                   Department Of Health, 529   Hlth & Human Svcs Comm,
                   530   Protective & Regulat Svcs, 655   MHMR, 781
                   Higher Education Coord Bd, 320   Workforce
                   Commission
LBB Staff:         JK, BB, TP, AZ