LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE, 76th Regular Session
May 5, 1999
TO: Honorable Jane Nelson, Chair, Senate Committee on Health
Services
FROM: John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE: SB1156 by Carona (Relating to regional injury prevention
centers), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
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* Estimated Two-year Net Impact to General Revenue Related Funds for *
* SB1156, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted: negative impact *
* of $(13,089,536) through the biennium ending August 31, 2001. *
* *
* 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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This bill would take effect September 1, 1999, but only if a specific
appropriation for the implementation of this Act is made in the General
Appropriations Act.
General Revenue-Related Funds, Five-Year Impact:
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* Fiscal Year Probable Net Positive/(Negative) *
* Impact to General Revenue Related *
* Funds *
* 2000 $(6,545,400) *
* 2001 (6,544,136) *
* 2002 (6,544,136) *
* 2003 (6,544,136) *
* 2004 (6,544,136) *
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All Funds, Five-Year Impact:
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* Fiscal Year Probable Savings/(Cost) from *
* General Revenue Fund *
* 0001 *
* 2000 $(6,545,400) *
* 2001 (6,544,136) *
* 2002 (6,544,136) *
* 2003 (6,544,136) *
* 2004 (6,544,136) *
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Fiscal Analysis
The bill would require the Department of Health to establish a program to
award grants to fund regional injury prevention centers. The bill would
require the department to assist the regional injury prevention centers
in providing informational packets on injury prevention to parents
shortly after a birth.
The bill would establish the Coordinating Committee on Injury Prevention
to advise the Board and the Advisory Committee on State Emergency
Communications. Reimbursements for travel expenses for committee members
would have to be authorized through the General Appropriations Act.
The bill states that it is the intent of the Legislature that to the
extent possible funds provided by the state would come from tobacco
litigation money.
Methodology
It is assumed that the Department would provide grants to regional injury
prevention centers in the amount of $6 million per year total. It is
assumed that the informational packets would cost $1.30 each to provide
to approximately 330,000 new parents each year through the regional
injury prevention centers. The Department would incur additional
indirect administrative costs for accounting and other support in the
amount of $116,400 in fiscal year 2000 and $115,136 in subsequent years.
Local Government Impact
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.
Source Agencies: 727 Texas Transportation Institute, 324
Department of Human Services, 477 Advisory
Commission on State Emergency Communications, 501
Department of Health
LBB Staff: JK, TP, KF