LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          April 18, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Allen Hightower, Chair       IN RE:  House Bill No. 1180
         Committee on Corrections                       By: Turner,
         House of Representatives               Sylvester
         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 persons formerly confined in the institutional
division or the state jail division of the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice) this office has determined the following:

This bill would require 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:   Council on Workforce and Economic Competitiveness,    




Department of Criminal Justice
          LBB Staff: JK, CG, RR