LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 2, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Allen Place, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 3062
          Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence                              By: Hightower
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB3062 ( Relating 
to comprehensive revisions to Subchapter B, Chapter 56, Code 
of Criminal Procedure, the Crime Victims' Compensation Act, 
and making an appropriation.) this office has detemined the 
following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB3062-As Introduced   FN Revision 1
         
Implementing the provisions of the bill would result in a net 
impact of $0 to General Revenue related funds through the biennium 
ending August 31, 1999.
         
The bill would make no appropriation but could provide the legal 
basis for an appropriation of funds to implement the provisions 
of the bill.


         
 
Fiscal Analysis
 
The bill would amend Subchapter B, Chapter 56, Code of Criminal 
Procedure, the Crime Victims Compensation Act, in order to expand 
benefits to victims of crime and their families, to increase 
the limit on the maximum benefits, to establish a carry forward 
balance, and to create an emergency reserve.
 
Methodolgy
 
The Office of the Attorney General anticipates that the bill 
would result in an increase in claims and workload, but that 
this could be absorbed with current funding.

The bill would 
authorize an increase in payments to crime victims and their 
families, which could be absorbed by the excess fund balance 
in the Compensation to Victims of Crime Fund without requiring 
additional appropriation authority.  The bill would also allow 
a reserve fund to be created from the excess balance of the 
Compensation to Victims of Crime Fund, for victims of mass violence 
and terrorism, the amount not to exceed $10,000,000.
 
Five Year Impact:
 
Fiscal Year Probable           Probable Revenue   
            Savings/(Cost)     Gain/(Loss) from                                                           
            from               new Emergency                                                              
            Compensation to    Reserve Fund                                                               
            Victims of Crime   (Dedicated)                                                                
            Account/                                                                                      
            GR-Dedicated                                                                                  
            0469               NEW-OTH                                                                     
       1998     ($10,000,000)       $10,000,000                                                      
       1998                 0                 0                                                      
       2000                 0                 0                                                      
       2001                 0                 0                                                      
       2002                 0                 0                                                      
 
 
          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   302   Office of the Attorney General
                                         304   Comptroller of Public Accounts
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,CB ,JC