LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  February 7, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Rodney Ellis, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 222
          Committee on Jurisprudence                              By: Sibley
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
         In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB222 ( Relating to 
retirement benefits payable for service as a district or criminal district 
attorney.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB222-As Introduced
         
             No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

The bill would increase the liabilities and the normal cost of the Employees 
Retirement System as a result of the increase in benefits provided to district 
attorneys and criminal district attorneys. However, because of the large actuarial 
surplus in that fund, an increase in state contributions to the program would not 
be necessary.
         
         
         
 
          
             No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   327   Employees Retirement System
                                         304   Comptroller of Public Accounts
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,PE ,SC