LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  May 1, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Allen Hightower, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 1610, As Engrossed
          Committee on Corrections                              By: Whitmire
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB1610 ( Relating 
to the county jail work release program and to participation 
by certain inmates of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, 
with the approval of a sheriff, in that program.) this office 
has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB1610-As Engrossed
         
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
          
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government 
is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   409   Commission on Jail Standards
                                         696   Department of Criminal Justice
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,CB ,JN