LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                              March 16, 2001
  
  
          TO:  Honorable John T. Smithee, Chair, House Committee on
               Insurance
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  HB1610  by Averitt (Relating to data on mandated health
               benefits and mandated offers of coverage that must be
               collected and reported by health benefit plan issuers.),
               As Introduced
  
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*  No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.        *
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The bill adds a new subchapter to the Insurance Code to require any
issuer of a health benefit plan to collect and report cost and
utilization data for each mandated health benefit.  The Employees
Retirement System estimates that it would require a computer programmer
24 hours to develop and 40 hours to print and test a report for each
mandate.
  
Local Government Impact
  
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
  
  
Source Agencies:   454   Texas Department of Insurance, 327   Employees
                   Retirement System
LBB Staff:         JK, JO, DE