This fiscal note contains 8 pages. Eight two day meetings per year are estimated. No inflation has been assessed for board costs. DOH states they apply indirect costs to all non-General Revenue funds in accordance with the indirect cost rate negotiated with the federal government. This amount reflects the amount of new funding requested from the Healthy Families Trust Fund in the FY2002 Governor's budget request upon receiving tobacco settlement funds.
Oversight assumes that any funding is subject to appropriation.
SOS states that based on experience with other divisions, the rules, regulations, and forms issued by the Life Sciences Research Board could require as many as 32 pages in the Code of State Regulations . For any given rule, roughly half again as many pages are published in the Missouri Register in the Code because cost statements, fiscal notes, and the like are not repeated in Code. These costs are estimated. The actual cost could be more or less than the numbers given. The fiscal impact of this proposal in future years in unknown and depends upon the frequency and length of rules filed, amended, rescinded, or withdrawn.