LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                              April 17, 2001
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Rodney Ellis, Chair, Senate Committee on Finance
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  SB1650  by Bernsen (Relating to certain state agency
               expenses incurred during a state or federal declared
               disaster.), As Introduced
  
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*  No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.        *
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Based on this bill, travel expenses incurred by assigned personnel and
related to providing disaster assistance would be exempted from a state
agency's travel cap.  Similarly, any temporary personnel hired to
provide disaster assistance to political subdivisions, would not be
counted against a state agency's cap on full-time equivalent positions
for as long as the disaster field office remained operational.
  
Local Government Impact
  
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
  
  
Source Agencies:   576   Texas Forest Service, 301   Office of the
                   Governor, 304   Comptroller of Public Accounts, 405
                   Texas Department of Public Safety
LBB Staff:         JK, SD, ZS, DG