LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE
75th Regular Session
April 8, 1997
TO: Honorable John Whitmire, Chair IN RE: Senate Bill No. 1156, Committee Report 1st House, as amended
Committee on Criminal Justice By: Whitmire
Senate
Austin, Texas
FROM: John Keel, Director
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB1156 ( Relating
to comprehensive revisions to Subchapter B, Chapter 56, Code
of Criminal Procedure, the Crime Victims' Compensation Act.)
this office has detemined the following:
Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB1156-Committee Report 1st House, as amended
Implementing the provisions of the bill would result in a net
impact of $0 to General Revenue Related Funds through the biennium
ending August 31, 1999.
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 Subchapter B, Chapter 56, Code of Criminal
Procedure, the Crime Victims Compensation Act, in order to expand
benefits to victims of crime and their families, to increase
the limit on the maximum benefits, to establish a carry forward
balance, and to create an emergency reserve.
Methodolgy
The Office of the Attorney General anticipates that the bill
would result in an increase in claims and workload, but that
this could be absorbed with current funding.
The bill would
authorize an increase in payments to crime victims and their
families, which could be absorbed by the excess fund balance
in the Compensation to Victims of Crime Fund without requiring
additional appropriation authority. The bill would also allow
a reserve fund to be created from the excess balance of the
Compensation to Victims of Crime Fund, for victims of mass violence
and terrorism, the amount not to exceed $10,000,000.
The probable fiscal implications of implementing the provisions
of the bill during each of the first five years following passage
is estimated as follows:
Five Year Impact:
Fiscal Year Probable Probable Revenue
Savings/(Cost) Gain/(Loss) from
from New Emergency
Compensation to Reserve Fund
Victims of Crime (Dedicated)
Account/
GR-Dedicated
0469 NEW-OTH
1998 ($10,000,000) $10,000,000
1998 0 0
2000 0 0
2001 0 0
2002 0 0
Net Impact on General Revenue Related Funds:
Fiscal Year Probable Net Postive/(Negative)
General Revenue Related Funds
Funds
1998 $0
1999 0
2000 0
2001 0
2002 0
Similar annual fiscal implications would continue as long as
the provisions of the bill are in effect.
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 ,CB