LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE
75th Regular Session
March 20, 1997
TO: Honorable Bill Ratliff, Chair IN RE: Senate Bill No. 987
Committee on Finance By: Moncrief
Senate
Austin, Texas
FROM: John Keel, Director
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB987 ( Relating
to the use of excess money in certain funds for the compensation
of crime victims.) this office has detemined the following:
Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB987-As Introduced
No 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.
The bill would require the Comptroller of Public Accounts, not
later than September 1 of each year, to certify an estimate
of the amount that will be required to make all payment of awards
to crime victims from the Compensation to Victims of Crime Fund
and the Auxiliary Compensation to Victims of Crime Fund, for
the fiscal year beginning that September 1. The Comptroller
would also be required to certify an estimate of the amount
by which the available money in those funds for the fiscal year,
including the unexpended balances from previous fiscal years,
will exceed 115 percent of the amount certified as needed to
make payments to crime victims. The Legislature would be authorized
to appropriate from both funds the amounts certified as exceeding
115 percent of the amounts certified as needed for substantial
and direct benefits, services, or assistance to crime victims
or other persons affected by criminal conduct.
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
Source: Agencies: 302 Office of the Attorney General
304 Comptroller of Public Accounts
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