LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          April 11, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Allen Hightower, Chair       IN RE:  House Bill No. 1433
         Committee on Corrections                       By: Hamric
         House of Representatives
         Austin, Texas







FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No.
1433 (relating to the eligibility for release on mandatory
supervision of certain inmates of the institutional division of
the Texas Department of Criminal Justice) this office has
determined the following:

The bill would amend the Code of Criminal Procedure by requiring
prisoners eligible for release to mandatory supervision to be
subject to review by a parole panel.  The bill would also expand
the class of offenders who are ineligible for mandatory
supervision.

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       Operating Costs    Probable Cost for 
             Year   Construction Costs     Out of the      Debt Service out  
                       from General      General Revenue          of         
                     Obligation Bonds       Fund 001          the General    
                                                                Revenue      
                                                               Fund 001      
                                                                             
          1996             $15,091,455                 $0            $754,573
                                                                             
          1997              21,856,590            335,310           3,694,805
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
            Fiscal     Change in    
             Year   Number of State 
                     Employees from 
                        FY 1995     
                                    
                                    
                                    
          1996                    .0
                                    
          1997                   8.0
                                    
                                    
                                    

        1998                 9,297,724            4,359,879             4,624,577             100.0

        1999                         0           10,808,249             4,624,577             248.0
        2000                         0           16,250,263             4,624,577             374.0



       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:   Department of Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Policy
Council
          LBB Staff: JK, BP, GG, RR