LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
 
FISCAL NOTE, 79TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION
 
March 29, 2005

TO:
Honorable Dianne White Delisi, Chair, House Committee on Public Health
 
FROM:
John S. O'Brien, Deputy Director, Legislative Budget Board
 
IN RE:
HB378 by Talton (Relating to an exemption from the fee for a birth or death record requested by a child fatality review team or the child fatality review team committee. ), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted

No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

The bill would require the state registrar to issue a non-certified copy of a birth or death record to a child fatality review team or the state child fatality review team committee without charging a fee.  It is assumed that the increased requests to the state registrar could be absorbed within current resources of the Department of State Health Services.

Local Government Impact

Local registrars could experience a decrease in revenue as well as a decrease in requests from child fatality review teams, as the bill would only exempt requests made to the state registrar.


Source Agencies:
537 Department of State Health Services
LBB Staff:
JOB, CL, KF, BW