LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                           May 18, 1995



 TO:     Honorable John Whitmire, Chair         IN RE:  House BillNo. 1953,
         Committee on Criminal Justice                         as engrossed
         Senate                                         By:  Oakley
         Austin, Texas








FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No.
1953 (relating to the Bill Blackwood Law Enforcement Management
Institute of Texas and its governance and programs for police
chiefs) this office has determined the following:

The bill would require the Bill Blackwood Law Enforcement
Management Institute of Texas at Sam Houston State University to
establish and offer a program of initial training and a program
of continuing education for police chiefs.  The bill would
establish certain minimal training requirements for continuing
education and initial training.

It is assumed that 50 new police chiefs will require initial
training each year and 300 police chiefs will require continuing
education each year under the provisions of this bill. 

The Education Code, Section 96.64 (k) requires that participation
costs of the institute training participants who are Texas
residents be paid from the Bill Blackwood Law Enforcement
Institute Receipts.  The estimated costs below are out of the
Bill Blackwood Law Enforcement Management Institute Receipts,
which is a General Revenue Dedicated account.  However, the
income into this account is insufficient to cover the amounts
recommended in House Bill 1/Senate Bill 2, the General
Appropriations Act, and the amounts estimated for this bill.

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  Bill Blackwood
                     Law Enforcement  
                        Management    
                    Institute Receipts
                                      
          1996                $287,500
          1997                 372,500
                                      
          1998                 372,500
                                      
          1999                 372,500
          2000                 372,500
                                      
                                      
                                      
       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:   Sam Houston State University
          LBB Staff: JK, LS, RR