LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  March 17, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Rodney Ellis, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 800
          Committee on Jurisprudence                              By: Harris
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB800 ( Relating 
to an appeal of a decision made by certain county civil service 
commissions.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB800-As Introduced
         

No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
          
This bill would apply only to counties which have civil service 
commissions to supervise county public sector employment.  This 
bill would provide for appeals of commission decisions to be 
reviewed by district courts under the substantial evidence rule, 
rather than the requiring a new trial as prescribed by current 
law, unless some type of legal error is shown to have been made 
by the commission.  If this bill were enacted, appellants would 
only be able to use the record of the commission's hearings 
in making a case before the district court.  This bill would 
allow the civil service commission to charge appellants up to 
one-half the cost of preparing the record of commission proceedings. 
 

The fiscal impact of this bill to counties would depend 
on the number of cases appealed.  It is anticipated that there 
would be some savings to counties associated with having appeals 
considered under the substantial evidence rule rather than by 
trial.  Counties which currently do not transcribe the records 
of civil service commission trials could, however, experience 
increased costs associated with this activity, since they would 
only be able to recover one-half of such costs.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   304   Comptroller of Public Accounts
                                         302   Office of the Attorney General
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB ,TL