LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  May 31, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Bob Bullock            Honorable James E. "Pete" Laney
          Lieutenant Governor                Speaker of the House
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB1550 ( relating 
to the juvenile justice system.) this office has detemined the 
following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB1550-Conference Committee Report
         

No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         
FISCAL ANALYSIS

The bill would amend provisions related to 
juvenile justice in the Family and other Codes, as well as the 
Penal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure.  The Education Code 
would be amended to create the Center for the Study and Prevention 
of Juvenile Crime and Delinquency at Prairie View A&M University. 
  The bill would also amend the Local Government Code to require 
that the State notify units of local government of the proposed 
location for certain correctional or rehabilitation facilities 
and to require local consent prior to construction or operation 
of those facilities.  

         
 
METHODOLOGY

No significant fiscal implications are expected 
from provisions of the bill related to juvenile justice.  

Establishing 
and operating the center at Prairie View A&M University would 
require approximately $660,000 in each year of the 1998-99 biennium. 
 The university is directed by H.B. 1 to spend $50,000 per year 
on the center and the board of regents could accept gifts and 
grants from public or private sources for the benefit of the 
center.  Also, contingent upon passage of H.B. 2272, revenue 
collected from an increase in court costs earmarked for the 
center would be appropriated to establish and operate the center. 
 The sum of these funding sources could be expected to offset 
costs of establishing and operating the center to the extent 
that the estimated fiscal impact for the biennium would be insignificant. 
 

Agencies required to notify local units of government about 
proposed locations for certain types of facilities report that 
the additional notification requirements would not significantly 
increase their current responsibilities;  therefore, agency 
costs would be insignificant.  
          
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government 
is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   665   Juvenile Probation Commission
                                         694   Youth Commission
                                         696   Department of Criminal Justice
                                         710   Texas A&M University System
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB ,RT ,DB ,JN