LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  May 9, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Robert Junell, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 987, Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted
          Committee on Appropriations                              By: Moncrief
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB987 ( relating 
to alternative uses for money in the compensation to victims 
of crime fund or in the compensation to victims of crime auxiliary 
fund) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB987-Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted
         
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
The bill would make no appropriation but could provide the legal 
basis for an appropriation of funds to implement the provisions 
of the bill.

FISCAL ANALYSIS
The bill would require the 
Attorney General, after consulting with the Comptroller of Public 
Accounts and not later than July 2 of each year, to estimate 
the amount that would be credited to the Compensation to Victims 
of Crime Account during the next fiscal year and the amount 
of money in the account anticipated to be obligated during the 
next fiscal year.  If the amount estimated to be credited during 
the next fiscal year exceeded the amount estimated to be obligated 
by more than $100 million, the Comptroller of Public Accounts 
would be required to transfer the amount in excess of $100 million 
to the general revenue fund.

The Legislature would be authorized 
to appropriate money to state agencies delivering or funding 
victim-related services or assistance from the account or from 
the Compensation to Victims of Crime Auxiliary Account.  This 
authorization would expire August 31, 1998.

The Attorney 
General would be allowed to use any interest that accrued on 
money in either of these accounts for grants or contracts supporting 
victim-related services.
          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
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                      LBB Staff:   JK ,RR