LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 4, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Allen Hightower, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 104, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
          Committee on Corrections                              By: Greenberg
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB104 ( Relating 
to the punishment and eligibility for release on parole of criminal 
defendants who commit certain sexual offenses and sexually assaultive 
offenses.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB104-Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
         
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
          
The bill would make no appropriation but could provide the legal 
basis for an appropriation of funds to implement the provisions 
of the bill.

Fiscal Analysis

The bill would require certain 
repeat sex offenders to serve 40 years of actual calendar time, 
without consideration of good conduct time, before being eligible 
for parole release.  The bill would apply to offenders who commit 
offenses on or after September 1, 1997.  

Methodology

There 
would be no significant fiscal impact during the first five 
years following the effective date of the bill.  However, after 
10 years of cumulative impact, additional operating costs would 
total $2,036,418 per year.

Included in the estimated costs 
is a projected savings of $105,676 per year in parole operating 
costs.

Costs of incarceration are estimated on the basis 
of $37.50 per inmate per day, reflecting approximated costs 
of either operating state facilities or contracting with other 
entities.  No costs are included for prison construction.  Options 
available to address the increased demand for prison capacity 
that would result from implementation of the bill include construction 
of new prisons and contracting with counties or private entities.

No 
significant fiscal implication to units of local government 
is anticipated.
          
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                      LBB Staff:   JK ,CB ,GG