LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 76th Regular Session
  
                              April 22, 1999
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Tom Ramsay, Chair, House Committee on County
               Affairs
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  HB 770  by Davis, Yvonne (Relating to a municipality's
               request of assistance from a
               constable.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
  
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*  No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.                    *
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Local Government Impact
  
A county providing the assistance of constables to municipalities could
incur costs associated with the salary and benefits of such constables.
The cost would depending on the type of assistance a municipality would
request, the number of hours of constable time municipal requests would
require and whether a county's constables could absorb the additional
workload using existing resources. Since the bill does not provide for
reimbursement of costs to a county by a municipality, the bill could
result in negative fiscal implications to a county that would have to
hire additional staff or require existing staff to work overtime to
provide constable services to a municipality.

A municipality could experience savings as a result of the bill's
enactment, if the municipality could use constable assistance instead of
hiring additional employees or requiring additional overtime by existing
employees. The savings would depend on the amount of constable
assistance received.
  
  
Source Agencies:   
LBB Staff:         JK, TL