LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                              March 5, 2001
  
  
          TO:  Honorable David Sibley, Chair, Senate Committee on
               Business & Commerce
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  SB866  by Nelson (Relating to the creation of a Texas
               Privacy Act to address the ways in which the information
               practices of state and local governmental entities
               affect personal privacy.), As Introduced
  
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*  No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.        *
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Local Government Impact
  
The Texas Municipal League (TML) estimates that cities would incur an
annual cost of $100,000 per population of 5,000 to submit to the Attorney
General each request for approval for disclosure for a public record
that contains the social security number, bank account number, credit
card number, computer password, computer network location, or computer
network identity.  TML estimates there are 500 cities that maintain an
Internet site and those cities would incur a one-time cost of
approximately $100 to adopt a privacy policy consistent with new
Department of Information Resources rules. TML also estimates a one-time
cost of $2,000 per city for implementing the other provisions of the
bill.

Counties would incur similar costs.
  
  
Source Agencies:   313   Department of Information Resources, 302
                   Office of the Attorney General, 308   State Auditor's
                   Office, 304   Comptroller of Public Accounts
LBB Staff:         JK, JO, SC, DB