LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                              March 31, 2001
  
  
          TO:  Honorable John T. Smithee, Chair, House Committee on
               Insurance
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  HB1610  by Averitt (Relating to data on mandated health
               benefits and mandated offers of coverage that must be
               collected and reported by health benefit plan issuers.),
               Committee Report 1st House, as amended
  
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*  No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.        *
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The bill adds a new subchapter to the Insurance Code to require any
issuer of a health benefit plan to collect and report cost and
utilization data for each mandated health benefit.  The Employees
Retirement System estimates that it would require a computer programmer
24 hours to develop and 40 hours to print and test a report for each
mandate.
  
Local Government Impact
  
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
  
  
Source Agencies:   454   Texas Department of Insurance, 327   Employees
                   Retirement System
LBB Staff:         JK, JO, DE