LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 76th Regular Session
  
                              April 14, 1999
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Rodney Ellis, Chair, Senate Committee on
               Jurisprudence
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  SB1436  by Duncan (Relating to the authority of a judge
               to hear pretrial matters in a county other than the one
               in which the suit is filed), Committee Report 1st House,
               Substituted
  
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*  No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.                    *
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Local Government Impact
  
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
  
  
Source Agencies:   212   Office of Court Administration
LBB Staff:         JK, PE, DG