LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          April 26, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Curtis Seidlits, Chair       IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 32,
         Committee on State Affairs                           as engrossed
         House of Representatives                       By: Montford
         Austin, Texas








FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on Senate Bill No.
32 (Relating to venue for civil actions.) 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 establishes venue for certain civil actions and creates
the Judicial Panel on Multicounty Litigation which may transfer
civil actions to another county for coordinated or consolidated
pretrial proceedings

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                 $10,000
                                      
          1997                  10,000
          1998                  10,000
                                      
                                      
                                      

        1999                    10,000

        2000                    10,000



       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:   Supreme Court of Texas, Office of Attorney General,
Comptroller of Public Accounts,
 Department of Insurance
          LBB Staff: JK, BR, DF