LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  March 6, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Rodney Ellis, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 726
          Committee on Jurisprudence                              By: Shapleigh
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB726 ( Relating 
to court administration in El Paso County, to the creation of 
the County Courts at Law No. 6 and No. 7 of El Paso County, 
Texas, and to the assignment of certain judges in El Paso County.) 
this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB726-As Introduced
         

No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
Similar annual fiscal implications would continue as long as 
the provisions of the bill are in effect.
          
The bill would create two additional county courts at law for 
El Paso County and designate them as criminal misdemeanor courts. 
  El Paso County officials expect that revenues will be approximately 
$545,952 annually with expenses of $489,362, for a net annual 
revenue increase of $56,590.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   304   Comptroller of Public Accounts
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB ,DC