LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                              March 26, 2001
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Mike Moncrief, Chair, Senate Committee on
               Health & Human Services
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  SB962  by Moncrief (Relating to a pilot project to
               address the need for more child protective services
               workers in certain regions of the state.), As Introduced
  
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*  No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.        *
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The bill would establish a pilot project to fill the need for more
full-time employees who are investigative caseworkers in the child
protective services program of the Department of Protective and
Regulatory Services (PRS).  The bill would require PRS to remove the
limit on authorized investigative caseworker positions and triple the
number of trainee positions in any region of the state that has more
than one-half of its authorized investigative caseworker positions
vacant on the effective date of the act which is September 1, 2001.  PRS
reports that no region of the state has more than one-half of its
authorized investigative caseworker positions vacant at this time and
the department does not expect any region of the state to have more than
one-half of its investigative caseworker positions vacant on September
1, 2001.
  
Local Government Impact
  
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
  
  
Source Agencies:   530   Department of Protective and Regulatory Services
LBB Staff:         JK, HD, NM