Texas 2025 89th Regular

Texas House Bill HB1691 Fiscal Note / Fiscal Note

Filed 04/07/2025

                    LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD     Austin, Texas       FISCAL NOTE, 89TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION             April 7, 2025       TO: Honorable Angie Chen Button, Chair, House Committee on Trade, Workforce & Economic Development     FROM: Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board      IN RE: HB1691 by Bumgarner (Relating to claims for benefits or compensation for certain cancer brought by firefighters or emergency medical technicians.), As Introduced     No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated. It is assumed that any costs associated with the bill could be absorbed using existing resources.  Local Government ImpactThis bill would add certain additional cancers to the list of cancers that would be presumed to have developed during employment as a firefighter or emergency medical technician. Units of local government could see an increase in claims for benefits or compensation. The number of increased claims and the cost of additional benefits and compensation is unknown, so the fiscal impact cannot be determined.   Source Agencies: b > td > 454 Department of Insurance, 479 State Office of Risk Management  LBB Staff: b > td > JMc, RStu, BFa, CWi

LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE, 89TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION
April 7, 2025

 

 

  TO: Honorable Angie Chen Button, Chair, House Committee on Trade, Workforce & Economic Development     FROM: Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board      IN RE: HB1691 by Bumgarner (Relating to claims for benefits or compensation for certain cancer brought by firefighters or emergency medical technicians.), As Introduced   

TO: Honorable Angie Chen Button, Chair, House Committee on Trade, Workforce & Economic Development
FROM: Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE: HB1691 by Bumgarner (Relating to claims for benefits or compensation for certain cancer brought by firefighters or emergency medical technicians.), As Introduced

 Honorable Angie Chen Button, Chair, House Committee on Trade, Workforce & Economic Development

 Honorable Angie Chen Button, Chair, House Committee on Trade, Workforce & Economic Development

 Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board 

 Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board 

 HB1691 by Bumgarner (Relating to claims for benefits or compensation for certain cancer brought by firefighters or emergency medical technicians.), As Introduced 

 HB1691 by Bumgarner (Relating to claims for benefits or compensation for certain cancer brought by firefighters or emergency medical technicians.), As Introduced 



No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

It is assumed that any costs associated with the bill could be absorbed using existing resources.

 Local Government Impact

This bill would add certain additional cancers to the list of cancers that would be presumed to have developed during employment as a firefighter or emergency medical technician. Units of local government could see an increase in claims for benefits or compensation. The number of increased claims and the cost of additional benefits and compensation is unknown, so the fiscal impact cannot be determined. 

Source Agencies: b > td > 454 Department of Insurance, 479 State Office of Risk Management

454 Department of Insurance, 479 State Office of Risk Management

LBB Staff: b > td > JMc, RStu, BFa, CWi

JMc, RStu, BFa, CWi