LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE
74th Regular Session
April 13, 1995
TO: Honorable David Sibley, Chair IN RE: Committee Substitute
Committee on Economic Development for
Senate Senate Bill
Austin, Texas No. 32
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 the Attorney General,
Comptroller of Public Accounts,
Department of Insurance
LBB Staff: JK, JC, RR