LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 76th Regular Session
  
                              March 8, 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 an emergency general
               appropriations), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted
  
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*  Estimated Net Impact to General Revenue Related Fundsfor SB472,       *
*  Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted:  negative impact of          *
*  $(90,461,481) through the biennium ending August 31, 2001.            *
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The bill would make a total of $90,358,481 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
$6,152,543 from federal funds to the Department of Protective and
Regulatory Services.

The bill would result in 242.5 additional full-time employees.

The estimate assumes the bill would have immediate effect.
  
Appropriations:
  
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*Fiscal   Appropriation   Appropriation   Appropriation   Appropriation    *
* Year    out of General  out of Oyster   out of Federal  out of Advance   *
*          Revenue Fund   Sales Account/      Funds       Interest Trust   *
*              0001        GR-Dedicated        0555            Fund        *
*                              5022                            0935        *
*  1999     $(90,358,481)      $(103,000)    $(6,152,543)      $(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                        $(90,461,481)  *
          *       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, BR, RS