LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  March 25, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Allen Place, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 1747
          Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence                              By: Place
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB1747 ( Relating 
to procedures to deal with an individual who is in the criminal 
justice system and who has a mental illness or is a person with 
mental retardation.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB1747-As Introduced
         
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated. 
 
         

         
 
          
Fiscal Analysis

 This bill would clarify and strengthen provisions 
in the Code of Criminal Procedure related to defendants in the 
criminal justice system suspected of being mentally ill or mentally 
retarded.  This bill would also add community supervisions and 
corrections departments to the list of providers under the continuity 
of care and service program for offenders with mental impairments 
with funds appropriated for that purpose.  

Methodology

The 
Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation currently 
provides services to defendants determined as having mental 
illness or mental retardation.  Assuming that the intent of 
this bill is to improve service coordination rather than expand 
services, there would be no significant fiscal impact to the 
Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation or the Department 
of Criminal Justice from the implementation of this bill.

No 
significant fiscal implication to units of local government 
is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   655   Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation
                                         696   Department of Criminal Justice
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,CB ,MG