LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  May 7, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Robert Junell, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Joint Resolution
                                                                No. 33, As Engrossed
          Committee on Appropriations                              By: Moncrief
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SJR33 ( proposing 
a constitutional amendment relating to the dedication of the 
compensation to victims of crime fund and the compensation to 
victims of crime auxiliary fund) this office has detemined the 
following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SJR33-As Engrossed
         
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.
         

         
 
FISCAL ANALYSIS
The resolution would propose a constitutional 
amendment to make the Compensation to Victims of Crime GR-Account 
0469 and the Compensation to Victims of Crime Auxiliary GR-Account 
0494 dedicated accounts in the General Revenue Fund 0001.  Currently, 
they are statutorily dedicated accounts in the General Revenue 
Fund 0001. 

Monies deposited to the credit of these accounts, 
from whatever source and subject to Legislative appropriation, 
could be expended only for the purpose of compensation, and 
costs related to compensation, of victims of criminal conduct 
and for providing services to those victims, as provided by 
law. 
 
The proposed constitutional amendment would be submitted 
to the voters at an election to be held November 4, 1997.  Upon 
passage, the proposed constitutional amendment would take effect 
January 1, 1998.
          
LOCAL
No fiscal implication to units of local government is 
anticipated.
          
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                      LBB Staff:   JK ,RR