LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          March 26, 1995



 TO:     Honorable John Whitmire, Chair         IN RE: Committee Substitute
         Committee on Criminal Justice          for
         Senate                                                Senate Bill
         Austin, Texas                          No. 267










FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on Senate Bill No.
267 (relating to sex offender registration and public
notification of the release of a sex offender into the community;
creating offenses and providing criminal penalties0) 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 expands the reporting requirements for the Sex Offender
Registration Program administered by the Department of Public
Safety.  The bill also expands the pre-release notification
requirements.

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       Employees from 
                       Fund 001          FY 1995    
                                                    
                                                    
                                                    

        1996                   $64,007               2.0

        1997                    51,071               2.0
        1998                    50,671               2.0

        1999                    50,671               2.0

        2000                    50,671               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