LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                            February 21, 2001
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Patricia Gray, Chair, House Committee on Public
               Health
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  HB757  by Coleman (Relating to the establishment of a
               task force to eliminate health and health access
               disparities in Texas.), As Introduced
  
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*  No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.        *
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The bill would establish a nine-member Health Disparities Task Force to
assist the Department of Health (TDH) in eliminating health and health
access disparities in Texas among multi-cultural, disadvantaged and
regional population, including reorienting all existing programs towards
eliminating these disparities.  Under the provisions of the bill, the
task force would be administratively attached to TDH. It is assumed TDH
would absorb any administrative costs associated with the implementation
of the bill.

Reimbursement for travel and related expenses would have to be authorized
in the General Appropriations Act.
  
Local Government Impact
  
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
  
  
Source Agencies:   501   Texas Department of Health
LBB Staff:         JK, HD, RM