LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 21, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Robert Junell, Chair            IN RE:  House Joint Resolution
  No. 1, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
          Committee on Appropriations                              By: Gallego
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HJR1 ( proposing 
a constitutional amendment relating to the purposes for which 
money in the compensation to victims of crime fund and the compensation 
to victims to crime auxiliary fund may be used.) this office 
has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HJR1-Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
         
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated, other than 
the cost of publication.

The cost to the state for publication 
of the resolution is $71,000.
         

         
 
FISCAL ANALYSIS
The resolution would propose a constitutional 
amendment to make the Compensation to Victims of Crime GR-Account 
0469 and the Compensation to Victims of Crime Auxiliary GR-Account 
0494 dedicated accounts in the General Revenue Fund 0001.  Currently, 
they are statutorily dedicated accounts in the General Revenue 
Fund 001.

With one exception, the Legislature could appropriate 
money in the two accounts only for  the purpose of compensating 
victims of crime, providing services to victims of crime, and 
paying the administrative costs of providing services to crime 
victims.  The one exception would be that the Legislature could 
provide by law that money in either account could be expended 
for the purpose of assisting victims of mass violence, if other 
money appropriated for emergency assistance were depleted. 
 

The proposed constitutional amendment would be submitted to 
the voters at an election to be held November 4, 1997.  Upon 
passage, the proposed constitutional amendment would take effect 
January 1, 1998.
          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   304   Comptroller of Public Accounts
                                         302   Office of the Attorney General
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   RR ,JC