LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          April 5, 1995



 TO:     Honorable John T. Montford, Chair      IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 384
         Committee on Finance                           By: Montford
         Senate
         Austin, Texas







FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on Senate Bill No.
384 (Relating to state aid for counties that provide secure
residential care facilities for certain delinquent children.)
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.

This bill would provide funding through the Texas Juvenile
Probation Commission to counties that provide secure post-
adjudication residential treatment for delinquent youth.  The
bill would also authorize the Juvenile Probation Commission to
promulgate standards for such facilities and monitor for
compliance.

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    Probable Savings 
          Year       of  General      to Units of Local 
                  Revenue Fund 001        Government    
                                                        
          1996            $9,765,210          $9,765,210
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        

         1997                 9,765,210             9,765,210

         1998                 9,765,210             9,765,210
         1999                 9,765,210             9,765,210

         2000                 9,765,210             9,765,210



       Similar annual fiscal implications would continue as long as the
provisions of the bill are in effect.


Source:   Legislative Budget Board
          LBB Staff: JK, RT, DF