LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                           May 18, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Don Henderson, Chair         IN RE: Committee Substitute
         Committee on Jurisprudence             for
         Senate                                                House Bill
         Austin, Texas                          No. 3235
                                                        By: Turner









FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No.
3235 (relating to the creation of certain judicial districts and
to the offices of district attorney of certain judicial
districts) 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 create the 378th Judicial District in Ellis
County, the 379th Judicial District in Fort Bend County, the
380th Judicial District in Collin County, the 381st Judicial
District in Starr County, the 382nd Judicial District in Rockwall
County, the 383rd and 384th Judicial Districts in El Paso County,
the 400th, 401st, 402nd, 403rd, and 404th Judicial Districts in
Bexar County, the 407th Judicial District in El Paso County, the
408th and 409th Judicial Districts in Travis County and renames
the 2nd 9th Judicial District as the 410th Judicial District for
Montgomery County, removing Polk, San Jacinto and Trinity
Counties from the Judicial District.  Polk and San Jacinto
Counties are removed from the 9th Judicial District.  The 411th
Judicial District is created for Polk, San Jacinto and Trinity
Counties.  The 380th Judicial District is created September 1,
1996, the remaining courts are created January 1, 1997. 

The bill would create a district attorney for the 278th Judicial    




District.  The district attorney is created within the
professional prosecutor's law.  The bill would also create the
office of county attorney for Grimes County.
 
The bill would require that the 93rd, 107th, 138th and 275th
Judicial Districts give preference to cases and proceedings
arising under Title 3 of the Family Code.  The 206th Judicial
District shall give preference to all criminal cases.

The fiscal implications to the counties are expected to be
approximately $4 million annually.

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  General    
                     Revenue Fund 001 
                                      
          1996                $229,559
          1997               1,323,439
                                      
          1998               1,862,215
                                      
          1999               1,862,215
          2000               1,862,215
                                      
                                      
                                      
       Similar annual fiscal implications would continue as long as the
provisions of the bill are in effect.


Source:
          LBB Staff: JK, DC, RR