LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          March 13, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Senfronia Thompson, Chair    IN RE:  House Bill No. 1523
         Committee on Judicial Affairs                  By: Hawley
         House of Representatives
         Austin, Texas







FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No.
1523 (relating to the application of the professional prosecutors
law to the district attorney for the 156th Judicial District)
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 would apply the Professional Prosecutors Act to the
district attorney for the 156th Judicial District.

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  ProbableCost Out 
             Year     of  General    
                        Revenue      
                        Fund 001     
                                     
          1996                $18,553
                                     
          1997                 18,553
          1998                 18,553
                                     
          1999                 18,553
                                     
                                     
                                     

        2000                    18,553




       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:   Comptroller of Public Accounts
          LBB Staff: JK, DC, RR