LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD Austin, Texas FISCAL NOTE 74th Regular Session April 5, 1995 TO: Honorable John Whitmire, Chair IN RE: Senate Bill No. 346 Committee on Criminal Justice By: Brown Senate Austin, Texas FROM: John Keel, Director In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on Senate Bill No. 346 (relating to funds used to compensate victims of crime) this office has determined the following: The bill would exempt the Compensation to Victims of Crime Fund and the Compensation to Victims of Crime Auxiliary Fund from fund consolidation. Under current law, these funds were brought into the General Revenue Fund as special accounts on August 31, 1993. House Bill 2178, Seventy-third Legislature, Regular Session, rededicated the revenue sources deposited to these two accounts, but did not recreate the two crime victims special funds outside the General Revenue Fund. Senate Bill 346 would recreate the special funds, resulting in a $14,765,853 reduction in the amount available for certification from the General Revenue Fund. The bill would also provide for donation of juror reimbursement to the Compensation to Victims of Crime 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 Reduction Probable Revenue Probable Revenue Year in the Amount Loss to the Gain to Available for Compensation to Certification from General Revenue Victims of the General Fund 001 Crime Fund Revenue Dedicated Fund 001 1996 $14,766,000 $53,907,000 $67,668,000 1997 0 66,659,000 66,420,000 1998 0 66,659,000 66,420,000 1999 0 69,447,000 69,208,000 2000 0 69,447,000 69,208,000 Fiscal Probable Revenue Year Gain to Compensation to Victims of Crime Auxiliary Fund 1996 $1,004,853 1997 239,000 1998 239,000 1999 239,000 2000 239,000 The amount of revenue gain from voluntary donations of juror reimbursement cannot be determined. Similar annual fiscal implications would continue as long as the provisions of the bill are in effect. No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated. Source: Comptroller of Public Accounts LBB Staff: JK, GG, RS, RR