LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE
74th Regular Session
April 10, 1995
TO: Honorable John Whitmire, Chair IN RE: Senate Bill No. 874
Committee on Criminal Justice By: Madla
Senate
Austin, Texas
FROM: John Keel, Director
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on Senate Bill No.
874 (relating to the requirement of DNA analysis of certain
defendants as a condition of community supervision and of certain
inmates and to the creation of a DNA database and of the Forensic
Science Review Committee within the Department of Public Safety;
providing penalties) 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 would establish a DNA database system for the
collection, analysis and database recording of DNA samples for
convicted sex offenders. The bill would require the Department
of Criminal Justice to collect and send a blood specimen for each
offender convicted of a sexual offense. The Department of Public
Safety would be responsible for the DNA analysis and storage.
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 $1,464,198 7.0
1997 444,198 7.0
1998 444,198 7.0
1999 444,198 7.0
2000 444,198 7.0
Similar annual fiscal implications would continue as long as the
provisions of the bill are in effect.
No fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.
Source: Department of Public Safety, Department of Criminal
Justice
LBB Staff: JK, BL, RR