LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD

Austin, Texas

FISCAL NOTE, 78TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION

April 7, 2003

TO:	Honorable David Swinford, Chair, House Committee on Government Reform
FROM:	John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:	HB2590 by Hilderbran (Relating to the decentralization of certain state agencies and to the location of the headquarters of certain state agencies.), As Introduced

No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

The bill would require that no later than September 1, 2004, the board or governing body of a state agency conduct a thorough review of the agency's organizational structure to identify (1) programs, functions, and administration of the agency that are unnecessarily or inappropriately consolidated in certain geographic areas of the state, (2) whether the state agency's head quarters is unnecessarily or inappropriately located in the Austin area and (3) any specific barriers to decentralizing by distributing programs, functions and administration throughout the state and moving the agency's headquarters from the Austin are to a different geographic area of the state. Any additional costs involved in preparing the review would be absorbed within existing resources of the agency.

Local Government Impact

No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.

Source Agencies:	305 General Land Office and Veterans' Land Board, 320 Texas Workforce Commission, 324 Department of Human Services, 362 Texas Lottery Commission, 403 Veterans Commission, 405 Department of Public Safety, 501 Department of Health, 655 Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, 694 Youth Commission, 802 Parks and Wildlife Department
LBB Staff:	JK, GO