LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD Austin, Texas FISCAL NOTE 74th Regular Session April 18, 1995 TO: Honorable Allen Place IN RE: House Bill No. 2424 Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence By: Talton House of Representatives Austin, Texas FROM: John Keel, Director In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No. 2424 (relating to requiring as a condition of community supervision that a defendant make a payment to the crime victims' compensation fund) this office has determined the following: The bill would permit judges to require a payment to the crime victims compensation fund as a condition of community supervision. The payment would be an amount not to exceed $50 for a misdemeanor offense and $100 for a felony offense. The bill would exempt the Compensation to Victims of Crime Fund and the Compensation to Victims of Crime Auxiliary Fund from fund consolidation. Under current law, these funds were brought into the General Revenue Fund as special accounts on August 31, 1993. House Bill 2178, Seventy-third Legislature, Regular Session, rededicated the revenue sources deposited to these two accounts, but did not recreate the two crime victims special funds outside the General Revenue Fund. House Bill 2424 would recreate the special funds. The revenue gain from the fee imposed as a condition of community service cannot be determined. Recreating the special funds would result in a $14,765,853 reduction in the amount available for certification from the General Revenue Fund without increasing the amount of revenue dedicated to crime victim compensation. 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 Reduction in the Probable Revenue Probable Revenue Year Amount Available Loss to General Gain to the for Certification Revenue Fund 001 - Compensation to from the General Dedicated Revenue Victims of Crime Revenue Fund Auxiliary Fund 494 1996 $14,765,000 $68,672,853 $1,004,853 1997 0 66,659,000 239,000 1998 0 66,659,000 239,000 1999 0 69,447,000 239,000 2000 0 69,447,000 239,000 Fiscal Probable Revenue Year Gain to the Compensation to Crime Victims Fund 469 1996 $67,668,000 1997 66,420,000 1998 66,420,000 1999 69,208,000 2000 69,208,000 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: Comptroller of Public Accounts LBB Staff: JK, RS, RR