LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE
75th Regular Session
February 7, 1997
TO: Honorable Bill Ratliff, Chair IN RE: Senate Bill No. 263
Committee on Finance By: Zaffirini
Senate
Austin, Texas
FROM: John Keel, Director
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB263 ( Relating to the creation
of an appellate judicial system for the Fourth Court of Appeals District.) this office
has detemined the following:
Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB263-As Introduced
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
The bill would require the commissioners court of each of the 32 counties within the
Fourth Court of Appeals District, San Antonio, to establish an appellate judicial system. The
purpose of the appellate judicial systems would be to assist the Fourth Court of Appeals in
processing appeals and defray costs and expenses incurred by the appeals court. To fund the
system, commissioners courts would set a fee of not more than $5 for each civil suit filed in
county court, probate court, or district court, except for a suit for delinquent taxes. Based on
the number of cases filed in fiscal year 1996 in the counties comprising the Fourth Court of
Appeals District, and assuming the court cost could be collected on 75% of cases, the court
would receive approximately $270,000 a year if the fee was set at $5.
Source: Agencies: 304 Comptroller of Public Accounts
212 Office of Court Administration
LBB Staff: JK ,RR ,DC