LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          April 11, 1995



 TO:     Honorable John Whitmire, Chair         IN RE: Committee Substitute
         Committee on Criminal Justice          for
         Senate                                               Senate Bill
         Austin, Texas                          No. 130
                                                        By:  West, Royce









FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on Senate Bill No.
130 (relating to creating the offense of transferring a handgun
to a person who is the subject of a protective order and
including in the law enforcement information system maintained by
the Department of Public Safety information relating to
protective orders) 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 creates an offense of transferring a handgun to a person
who is the subject of a protective order.  Additionally, the bill
requires the Department of Public Safety to maintain records of
those protective orders in the criminal history system.

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      Change in   
             Year      of  General      Number of State
                     Revenue Fund 001   Employees from 
                                            FY 1995    
                                                       
          1996                $100,933              2.0
          1997                  72,477              2.0
                                                       
          1998                  72,477              2.0
                                                       
          1999                  72,477              2.0
          2000                  72,477              2.0
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
       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
          LBB Staff: JK, BL, RR