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