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