LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE
74th Regular Session
March 23, 1995
TO: Honorable John Whitmire, Chair IN RE: Committee Substitute
Committee on Criminal Justice for
Senate Senate Bill
Austin, Texas No. 45
FROM: John Keel, Director
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on Senate Bill No.
45 (relating to the punishment and eligibility for parole of
certain defendants charged with sexual offenses) this office has
determined the following:
The bill would amend the Penal Code and the Code of Criminal
Procedure by providing for a punishment of imprisonment for life
for certain sex offenders.
This estimate assumes that bonds would be issued from existing
authority to finance construction costs. If no additional bonds
were issued, construction costs would be funded out of the
General Revenue Fund.
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 Operating Costs Probable Cost for
Year Construction Costs Out Debt Service out
from General of the General of the
Obligation Bonds Revenue Fund General Revenue
Fund
Fiscal Change in
Year Number of State
Employees from
FY 1995
1996 $1,887,461 $0 $94,973 .0
1997 3,787,813 257,718 567,527 6.0
1998 2,998,643 893,718 867,392 21.0
1999 3,503,993 1,838,741 1,217,791 42.0
2000 3,712,151 3,013,329 1,589,006 70.0
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:
LBB Staff: JK, BP, GG, RR