TO: | Honorable Craig Estes, Chair, Senate Committee on S/C on Ag., Rural Affairs & Coastal Resources |
FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | SB286 by Watson (Relating to the establishment of a home-delivered meal grant program in the Department of Agriculture.), As Introduced |
Fiscal Year | Probable Net Positive/(Negative) Impact to General Revenue Related Funds |
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2008 | ($16,153,478) |
2009 | ($16,205,653) |
2010 | ($24,282,391) |
2011 | ($24,282,391) |
2012 | ($28,320,761) |
Fiscal Year | Probable Savings/(Cost) from GENERAL REVENUE FUND 1 |
Probable Revenue Gain/(Loss) from New GR-Dedicated Home-Delivered Meal Fund |
Probable Savings/(Cost) from New GR-Dedicated Home-Delivered Meal Fund |
Change in Number of State Employees from FY 2007 |
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2008 | ($16,153,478) | $16,153,478 | ($16,153,478) | 1.0 |
2009 | ($16,205,653) | $16,205,653 | ($16,205,653) | 1.0 |
2010 | ($24,282,391) | $24,282,391 | ($24,282,391) | 1.0 |
2011 | ($24,282,391) | $24,282,391 | ($24,282,391) | 1.0 |
2012 | ($28,320,761) | $28,320,761 | ($28,320,761) | 1.0 |
This bill creates a fund administered by the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) to help defray the cost of providing home-delivered meals. Grant applicants must be a governmental agency or a nonprofit private organization that provide home-delivered meals to the homebound elderly and disabled. Applicants must also receive a grant from the county where the meals are delivered. The amount of money from the fund available to programs in a county will depend on the number of county residents aged 60 or older, the amount of the county’s grant and the total dollars appropriated to the fund. TDA grants can be up to one dollar for each meal delivered by the applying organization to homebound elderly or disabled persons in the county in the preceding state fiscal year that were not fully funded by the Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS) or an Area Agency on Aging (AAA).
The act will take effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house. If this bill does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, the act takes effect September 1, 2007.
In order to implement the provisions of the bill, TDA anticipates needing one additional FTE and associated start up costs for a total of $65,190 in fiscal year 2008 and $52,175 in subsequent fiscal years. The agency also estimates a cost of $10,800 in professional service fees to create the software to process the grant applications.
The agency anticipates a cost of $2,000 for a computer and software for the new FTE and $10,800 in professional service fees to create the software to process the grant applications
Source Agencies: | 539 Aging and Disability Services, Department of, 551 Department of Agriculture
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LBB Staff: | JOB, WK, ZS, JF
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