LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 4, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Ron E. Lewis, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 1504, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
          Committee on County Affairs                              By: Dutton
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB1504 ( Relating 
to the reimbursement of jurors.) this office has detemined the 
following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB1504-Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
         
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 ,TL