LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD

Austin, Texas

FISCAL NOTE, 79TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION

April 25, 2005

TO:	Honorable Suzanna Gratia Hupp, Chair, House Committee on Human Services
FROM:	John S. O'Brien, Deputy Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:	HB3077 by Naishtat (Relating to the establishment of a work group to recommend definitions, guidelines, and reporting requirements regarding the management of behavior of residents at certain facilities. ), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted

No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

The bill would establish a workgroup to recommend definitions, guidelines, and reporting requirements regarding the management of behavior of residents at certain facilities. The executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission would appoint members to the workgroup, made up of representatives of the Department of State Health Services, the Department of Aging and Disability Services, the Department of Family and Protective Services, the Texas Youth Commission, the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission, the federal protection and advocacy system and a number of additional expert members representing facility residents and hospitals.

 

The bill would take effect September 1, 2005 and expire on January 1, 2007.

Local Government Impact

No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.

Source Agencies:

529 Health and Human Services Commission, 530 Department of Family and Protective Services, 665 Juvenile Probation Commission, 694 Youth Commission

LBB Staff:

JOB, PP, CL, KF, MB