LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          April 18, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Keith Oakley, Chair          IN RE: Committee Substitute
         Committee on Public Safety             for
         House of Representatives                              House Bill
         Austin, Texas                          No. 1953
                                                        









FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No.
1953 (relating to initial training and continuing education 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  Year  Probable Cost Out  
                               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