LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
 
FISCAL NOTE, 78TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION
 
May 13, 2003

TO:
Honorable Joe Driver, Chair, House Committee on Law Enforcement
 
FROM:
John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
 
IN RE:
SB568 by West (Relating to security officers for medical corporations in certain municipalities. ), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted

No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

The bill would specify the jurisdiction of security officers commissioned and employed by a private nonprofit medical corporation in a municipality with a population of 1.18 million or more, therefore, the bill would apply only to medical corporations in the cities of Dallas and Houston. Because private nonprofit medical corporations are not political subdivisions, the requirements for the corporations would have no fiscal impact on state or local government.

The bill would also absolve the state and any political subdivisions of liability for any act or omission of the corporation's security officers who are providing security services to a branch of a medical facility within the same complex as an institution of higher education or other government entities.


Local Government Impact

No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.


Source Agencies:
710 Texas A&M University System Administrative and General Offices, 720 The University of Texas System Administration, 739 Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, 763 University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, 781 Higher Education Coordinating Board
LBB Staff:
JK, WK, JB, DLBa