LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD

Austin, Texas

FISCAL NOTE, 81ST LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION

April 21, 2009

TO:	Honorable Frank Corte Jr., Chair, House Committee on Defense & Veterans' Affairs
FROM:	John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:	HB3950 by Turner, Chris (relating to the temporary housing in a housing facility of a public university of certain veterans receiving health care treatment.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted

No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

Provisions of the bill would allow veterans, as well as their primary or other necessary caregiver, receiving health care services from a hospital, health clinic, or other facility operated by the Veterans Health Administration of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to stay, free of charge, in a vacant room of a housing facility located at and operated by an institution of higher education while the veteran is receiving the health care services if the institution is able to accommodate and approves the veteran's request for temporary housing, is located a reasonable distance from the facility, and the veteran resides more than 100 miles from the facility.

Institutions of higher education report that implementing provisions of this bill would have minimal fiscal implications and could be done within existing resources.

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, 758 Texas State University System, 769 University of North Texas System Administration, 783 University of Houston System Administration

LBB Staff:

JOB, KK, RT, SSh