LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 76th Regular Session
  
                              April 11, 1999
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Rodney Ellis, Chair, Senate Committee on
               Jurisprudence
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  SB1187  by Armbrister (Relating to the Judicial and Court
               Personnel Training Fund.), As Introduced
  
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*  Estimated Two-year Net Impact to General Revenue Related Funds for    *
*  SB1187, As Introduced:  positive impact of $0 through the biennium    *
*  ending August 31, 2001.                                               *
*                                                                        *
*  The bill would make no appropriation but could provide the legal      *
*  basis for an appropriation of funds to implement the provisions of    *
*  the bill.                                                             *
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General Revenue-Related Funds, Five-Year Impact:
  
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          *  Fiscal Year  Probable Net Positive/(Negative)   *
          *               Impact to General Revenue Related  *
          *                             Funds                *
          *       2000                                   $0  *
          *       2001                                    0  *
          *       2002                                    0  *
          *       2003                                    0  *
          *       2004                                    0  *
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All Funds, Five-Year Impact:
  
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         * Fiscal Year    Probable Revenue Gain/(Loss) from   *
         *                  Judicial and Court Personnel      *
         *                          Training Fund             *
         *                              0540                  *
         *      2000                               $4,066,155 *
         *      2001                                4,127,147 *
         *      2002                                4,189,054 *
         *      2003                                4,251,890 *
         *      2004                                4,315,668 *
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Fiscal Analysis
  
The bill would adjust the court cost paid on conviction of any criminal
offense from $1 to $2.
  
  
Methodology
  
The $1 court cost generated $4,006,064 in fiscal year 1998 which amounted
to a 1.5% increase over the $3,945,680 generated by the cost in fiscal
year 1997.  Changing the cost from $1 to $2 would double the receipts
from this court cost.  The fiscal implications contained herein assume
that the 1.5% annual increase continues.
  
  
Local Government Impact
  
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
  
  
Source Agencies:   212   Office of Court Administration, 304
                   Comptroller of Public Accounts
LBB Staff:         JK, PE, DG