TO:	Honorable Bryan Hughes, Chair, Senate Committee on State Affairs
FROM:	Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:	HB4061 by Schatzline (relating to prohibiting a registered sex offender in certain circumstances from going within a certain distance of the residence of the victim of the offense for which the offender is subject to registration.), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted

The bill would prohibit certain registered sex offenders from intentionally going within 2,500 feet of a place the person knows to be the residence of a victim of any offense for which the person is subject to sex offender registration and would require the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and Texas Juvenile Justice Department to inform a person subject to sex offender registration of the prohibited conduct before release from incarceration.

The Office of Court Administration and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice anticipate no significant fiscal impact. The impact on state correctional populations or on the demand for state correctional resources cannot be determined due to a lack of data to estimate the prevalence of the new conduct outlined in the bill's provisions that would be subject to criminal penalties.

Local Government Impact

While the fiscal impact cannot be determined, expanding the conduct constituting an existing offense may result in increased demands upon local correctional resources due to a possible increase in the number of individuals placed under supervision in the community or sentenced to a term of confinement.