LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                                May 2, 2001
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Tom Ramsay, Chair, House Committee on County
               Affairs
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  SB961  by Moncrief (Relating to salary supplements by a
               county or a municipality for child and adult protective
               services workers.), Committee Report 2nd House, as
               amended
  
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*  No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.                    *
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Local Government Impact
  
The bill would authorize a county or municipality to supplement from
their own funds the salary of Department of Protective and Regulatory
Services (DPRS) employees whose duties include providing services as part
of, or relating to, the provision of child and adult protective services
by the DPRS.  A salary supplement shall not be required as a condition
for creating or maintaining a position in the region.

A county or municipality that might choose to provide supplemental pay to
DPRS employees would incur an increase in expenditures, but it is not
anticipated a unit of local government would incur this additional
expense unless there are sufficient funds available.
  
  
Source Agencies:   530   Department of Protective and Regulatory Services
LBB Staff:         JK, DB