LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                        February 25, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Curtis Seidlits, Chair       IN RE:  House Bill No. 6
         Committee on State Affairs                     By: Duncan, et al.
         House of Representatives
         Austin, Texas







FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No. 6
(Relating to venue for civil actions.) this office has determined
the following:

The bill would make no appropriation but could provide the legal
basis for an appropriation of funds to implement the provisions
of the bill.

The bill establishes venue for certain civil actions and creates
the Judicial Panel on Multicounty Litigation which may transfer
civil actions to another county for coordinated or consolidated
pretrial proceedings.

The probable fiscal implication of implementing the provisions of
the bill during each of the first  five years following passage
is estimated as follows:



            Fiscal   Probable Cost   
             Year   Out of  General  
                    Revenue Fund 001 
                                     
          1996                $10,000
                                     
          1997                 10,000
          1998                 10,000
                                     
          1999                 10,000
                                     
                                     
                                     

        2000                    10,000




       Similar annual fiscal implications would continue as long as the
provisions of the bill are in effect.

No fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.


Source:
          LBB Staff: JK, RR, DF