LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 25, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Rodney Ellis, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 1504, As Engrossed
          Committee on Jurisprudence                              By: Dutton
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB1504 ( Relating 
to reimbursement of jurors.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB1504-As Engrossed
         

No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
          
This bill would raise the maximum daily reimbursement for grand 
jurors and petit jurors in district, county or justice courts 
from $30 per day to $50 per day.  The bill also would allow 
a judge to increase the daily reimbursement for jurors in specific 
cases, with the agreement of the parties involved, to the $50 
maximum.

A commissioners court that raises juror reimbursements 
as a result of this bill would incur additional costs depending 
on the number of jurors serving in the county.  Only counties 
currently paying jurors $30 per day would be expected to raise 
juror reimbursements as a result of this bill.

Cost increases 
to local governments associated with allowing judges to raise 
juror reimbursement to $50 per day in specific cases is not 
expected to be significant, since a local government would only 
be responsible for paying juror costs at a rate higher than 
the current rate if the entity agreed to the increase. 
          
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                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB ,TL