LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 9, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Bill Ratliff, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 987, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
          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 the compensation to victims of 
crime fund) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB987-Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
         
No 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 amend the Code 
of Criminal Procedure to permit the Legislature to use money 
in the Compensation to Victims of Crime GR-Account 0469 (account) 
for additional purposes.  Through September 1, 1999, the Legislature 
could appropriate money in the account to state agencies for 
programs or purposes that provided benefits, services or assistance 
to victims, guardians of victims, or immediate family members 
of victims.  

On or before December 15 of each even-numbered 
year, and after consulting with the Comptroller, the Attorney 
General would be required to certify an estimate of the amount 
that would be received from deposits (other than gifts, grants, 
donations, and federal funds) to the credit of the account during 
the next biennium and the amount required to make all payments 
of awards and other obligations during the next biennium.   
Also, the Attorney General would be required to certify an estimate 
of the amount by which the estimated amount of deposits would 
exceed an amount equal to 115 percent of the amount certified 
as required to meet all obligations of the account.  The amount 
would be called "excess money."

The Legislature would be 
permitted to appropriate excess money from the account for a 
program or purpose that provided benefits, services, or assistance 
to victims, guardians of victims, or immediate family members 
of victims.    

The Attorney General and the Comptroller 
would be required to cooperate in determining the proper allocation 
of various sources of revenue deposited to the credit of the 
account for the purposes of the appropriation of excess money 
for other crime victim assistance.
          
LOCAL
No fiscal implication to units of local government is 
anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   302   Office of the Attorney General
                                         304   Comptroller of Public Accounts
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,RR