LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  May 2, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Rodney Ellis, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 1193, As Engrossed
          Committee on Jurisprudence                              By: Rhodes
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB1193 ( Relating 
to free trial transcripts for appeals in which an affidavit 
of inability to pay costs has been filed.) this office has detemined 
the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB1193-As Engrossed
         

No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
          
The bill would save counties the cost of preparing a transcript 
for appealing a judgment from a court by limiting the circumstances 
under which a clerk of a court must prepare a transcript to 
the following:  1)  the appeal is non-frivolous and requires 
both a statement of facts and the clerk's transcript in order 
to decide the issue, and 2) an affidavit of inability to pay 
the cost of the appeal has been filed.  

It is estimated 
that the range of annual savings to counties would vary from 
$600 for smaller counties up to $30,000 for larger counties.
          
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                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB ,MG