LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 6, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Rodney Ellis, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Joint Resolution
                                                                No. 26
          Committee on Jurisprudence                              By: Gallegos
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SJR26 ( Proposing 
a constitutional amendment providing for the appointment of 
appellate justices and judges by the governor with retention 
elections on a nonpartisan ballot for those justices and judges, 
for the nonpartisan election and retention or rejection of district 
judges, for the election of certain district judges from state 
representative districts or commissioners court precincts, and 
for the alteration of the terms of certain judicial offices. 
) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SJR26-As Introduced
         

No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated, other than 
the cost of publication.
         
The cost to the state for publication of the resolution is $71,000.
         
 
          
The fiscal impact on local government would be the normal cost 
of conducting local elections but no other fiscal implications 
to local governments are anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,BB ,JC