LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          April 10, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Keith Oakley, Chair          IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 42,
         Committee on Public Safety                            as engrossed
         House of Representatives                       By: Shapiro
         Austin, Texas








FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on Senate Bill No.
42 (relating to access to criminal history record information by
certain organizations providing volunteer services) 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 broadens the definition of a volunteer center. 
Volunteer centers throughout the state would be granted access to
criminal history information at the Department of Public Safety. 
The department would be authorized to charge volunteer centers a
fee sufficient to cover costs.

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   Probable Revenue 
          Year       of  General      Gain to  General 
                  Revenue Fund 001    Revenue Fund 001 
                                                       
          1996               $50,478            $50,478
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       

         1997                    42,813                42,813

         1998                    42,813                42,813
         1999                    42,813                42,813

         2000                    42,813                42,813



       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:   Department of Public Safety
          LBB Staff: JK, RR, DF