LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          April 19, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Allen Hightower, Chair       IN RE: Committee Substitute
         Committee on Corrections                             forHouse Bill
         House of Representatives               No. 1180
         Austin, Texas









FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No.
1180 (relating to providing employment services and other
information to person formerly confined in the institutional
division or the state jail division of the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice) this office has determined the following:

The bill requires that local workforce development boards
establish workforce development
 centers to provide employment services to former inmates of the
institutional division or
 the state jail division of the Texas Department of Criminal
Justice (TDCJ).  The boards
 would be required to provide this service in cooperation with
Project RIO. 

The bill would require the Texas Employment Commission (TEC)
adopt a memorandum
of understanding with the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug
Abuse, the Texas
Department of Housing and Community Affairs, the Texas Veterans
Commission,
the Texas Department of Human Services, The Texas Department of
Commerce,
and the Council on Workforce and Economic Competitiveness (TCWEC)
in order
to coordinate  information regarding which agency services are
available to former    




inmates of TDCJ.

 TEC  would be required to provide this service in cooperation
with Project RIO.

No significant fiscal implication to the State or units of local
government is anticipated.





         
    

    







Source:   LBB Staff: JK, CT, RR