LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE
74th Regular Session
March 16, 1995
TO: Honorable John Whitmire, Chair IN RE: Senate Bill No. 36
Committee on Criminal Justice By: Brown
Senate
Austin, Texas
FROM: John Keel, Director
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on Senate Bill No.
36 (relating to the registration of sexual offenders; providing a
criminal penalty) 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 modify the procedures for the existing sex
offender registration program by expanding the registration
requirements, provide for collection of blood samples for DNA
analysis, and provide for subsequent storage of the resulting
data.
The fiscal implications associated with the expansion of the sex
offender registration program are not anticipated to be
significant. All fiscal implications indicated below relate to
those provisions of the bill relating to DNA analysis.
The probable fiscal implication of implementing the DNA
provisions of the bill during each of the first five years
following passage is estimated as follows:
Fiscal Probable Cost Out Change in
Year of General Number of State
Revenue Employees from
Fund 001 FY 1995
1996 $1,287,329 7.0
1997 515,593 7.0
1998 515,593 7.0
1999 515,593 7.0
2000 515,593 7.0
Similar annual fiscal implications would continue as long as the
provisions of the bill are in effect.
The fiscal implication to units of local government cannot be
determined.
Source: Department of Public Safety, Youth Commission,
Department of Criminal Justice
LBB Staff: JK, BL, RR