LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                        February 20, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Don Henderson, Chair         IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 115
         Committee on Jurisprudence                     By: Harris
         Senate
         Austin, Texas







FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on Senate Bill No.
115 (Relating to denial and suspension of a Texas driver's
license for failure to pay child support.) this office has
determined the following:

The bill would authorize the Office of the Attorney General and
the Department of Public Safety to establish a procedure for the
denial or suspension of the driver's license of an individual who
is thirty or more days delinquent in providing child support.

It is assumed that the Office of the Attorney General currently
has adequate resources to implement the provisions of the bill.

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 Revenue 
             Year    Gain to  Child  
                    Support Retained 
                    Collections 787  
                                     
          1996             $6,589,000
                                     
          1997              9,250,000
          1998             17,233,000
                                     
                                     
                                     

        1999                10,644,000

        2000                10,644,000



       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:   Office of the Attorney General, Comptroller of Public
Accounts, Department of Public Safety
          LBB Staff: JK, JC, RR