LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          March 13, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Senfronia Thompson, Chair    IN RE:  House Bill No. 1551
         Committee on Judicial Affairs                  By: Greenberg
         House of Representatives
         Austin, Texas







FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No.
1551 (relating to judicial training in family violence, sexual
assault, and child abuse issues) 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 require the Court of Criminal Appeals to adopt
rules to ensure that each district and statutory county court
judge complete at least eight hours of training in problems of
family violence, sexual assault, and child abuse.

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 Out 
             Year    of  Judicial  &  
                          Court       
                    Training Fund 540 
                                      
          1996                $246,000
                                      
          1997                 246,000
          1998                 246,000
                                      
                                      
                                      

        1999                   246,000

        2000                   246,000



       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:  Court of Criminal Appeals
          LBB Staff: JK, DC, RR