LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 8, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Rodney Ellis, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 416, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
          Committee on Jurisprudence                              By: Harris
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB416 ( Relating 
to the enforcement and collection of child support payments.) 
this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB416-Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
         

No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

         
The bill would transfer the responsibility for child support 
enforcement duties from the Office of the Attorney General to 
a new commission which the bill would create, the Texas Family 
Support Commission.  The new commission would be composed of 
six members appointed by the Governor not later than October 
1, 1997,  and would be the single state agency designated as 
the Title IV-D agency in Texas.  A three-member transition committee, 
two members appointed by the Governor and one member appointed 
by the Attorney General, would develop a plan for the transfer 
to the new commission of the records, property, personnel and 
unspent appropriations of the Office of the Attorney General 
that are used by that office to conduct child support enforcement 
responsibilities.  On January 1, 1998, or an earlier date determined 
by the transition committee, the Child Support Enforcement Division 
of the Office of the Attorney General would be abolished.

This 
bill would become effective on the date of its passage by the 
Legislature.
         
 
          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
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                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB ,JC