LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                              April 1, 2001
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Frank Madla, Chair, Senate Committee on
               Intergovernmental Relations
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  SB961  by Moncrief (Relating to salary supplements by a
               county or a municipality for child protective services
               workers.), As Introduced
  
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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 protective services by
the DPRS.  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