LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                              April 26, 2001
  
  
          TO:  Honorable John T. Smithee, Chair, House Committee on
               Insurance
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  HB1433  by Dunnam (Relating to prohibition on the
               disclosure of defense counsel's billing statements by
               certain insurers and on the submission of those
               statements to certain audits; providing a civil penalty.
               ), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
  
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*  No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.        *
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Local Government Impact
  
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.
  
  
Source Agencies:   359   Office of Public Insurance Counsel, 454   Texas
                   Department of Insurance
LBB Staff:         JK, JO, DE