LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 14, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Ron E. Lewis, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 3190
          Committee on County Affairs                              By: Stiles
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB3190 ( Relating 
to certain court proceedings authorized to be held outside the 
municipality designated as the county seat.) this office has 
detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB3190-As Introduced
         
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
          
This bill would allow a county to hold all court proceedings, 
including jury trials, in locations outside the county seat 
and designate such places as auxiliary county seats.

Jefferson 
County, which is currently constructing a juvenile holding facility 
outside the county seat (Beaumont), estimates that this bill's 
enactment could save the county approximately $76,000 in the 
first year of that facility's operation, and approximately $32,000 
per year in subsequent years, since the bill would allow court 
proceedings to be held directly adjacent to the facility, eliminating 
the need to transport defendants to the court facilities in 
Beaumont. 
          
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                      LBB Staff:   JK ,TL