LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 76th Regular Session
  
                              March 3, 1999
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Robert Junell, Chair, House Committee on
               Appropriations
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  SB472 by Ratliff (relating to making emergency
               appropriations), As Engrossed
  
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*  Three-year Net Impact to General Revenue Related Funds for SB472,     *
*  As Engrossed:  negative impact of $(94,191,607) through the           *
*  biennium ending August 31, 2001.                                      *
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The bill would make a total of $94,088,607 million in emergency
appropriations from the General Revenue Fund to various agencies.

The bill would reduce an existing contingency appropriation from the
General Revenue Fund to the Texas Education Agency (TEA) by $18,840,000.
However, the reduction would not lower the certification cost of the
bill because the Comptroller's Biennial Revenue Estimate recognized that
a portion of the TEA 1998-99 contingency appropriation would not be
spent.  The Comptroller, therefore, included the unutilized portion of
the TEA contingency appropriation in the amount available for
certification from the General Revenue Fund.

The bill would also appropriate $103,000 from the General
Revenue-Dedicated Oyster Sales Account 5022 to the Department of Health.
This appropriation would reduce the amount available for certification
from the General Revenue Fund because the Comptroller includes estimated
fiscal year 1999 General Revenue-Dedicated account balances in the amount
available for certification from the General Revenue Fund for the
2000-01 biennium.

In addition, the bill would appropriate the following:  $350,000 from the
Advanced Interest Trust Fund to the Texas Workforce Commission; and
$2,174,804 from federal funds to the Department of Protective and
Regulatory Services.

The estimate assumes the bill would have immediate effect.
  
Appropriations:
  
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*Fiscal       Gross       Appropriation   Appropriation   Appropriation    *
* Year    Appropriation   out of Oyster   out of Federal  out of Advance   *
*         out of General  Sales Account/      Funds       Interest Trust   *
*          Revenue Fund    GR-Dedicated        0555            Fund        *
*              0001            5022                            0935        *
*  1999     $(94,088,607)      $(103,000)    $(2,174,804)      $(350,000)  *
*  2000                 0               0               0               0  *
*  2001                 0               0               0               0  *
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General Revenue-Related Funds, Three-Year Impact:
  
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          *  Fiscal Year  Probable Net Positive/(Negative)   *
          *               Impact to General Revenue Related  *
          *                             Funds                *
          *       1999                        $(94,191,607)  *
          *       2000                                    0  *
          *       2001                                    0  *
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Local Government Impact
  
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
  
  
Source Agencies:   
LBB Staff:         JK, BB, RS