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 ************************************************************************** * 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. * ************************************************************************** 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: *************************************************************************** *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 * *************************************************************************** General Revenue-Related Funds, Three-Year Impact: **************************************************** * Fiscal Year Probable Net Positive/(Negative) * * Impact to General Revenue Related * * Funds * * 1999 $(90,461,481) * * 2000 0 * * 2001 0 * **************************************************** Local Government Impact No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated. Source Agencies: LBB Staff: JK, BB, BR, RS