LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
April 3, 2001
TO: Honorable Pat Haggerty, Chair, House Committee on
Corrections
FROM: John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE: HB588 by Garcia (relating to the creation of a DNA
record for certain persons convicted of a felony or
adjudicated as having engaged in delinquent conduct
constituting a felony offense.), Committee Report 1st
House, Substituted
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* Estimated Two-year Net Impact to General Revenue Related Funds for *
* HB588, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted: positive impact *
* of $0 through the biennium ending August 31, 2003. *
* *
* 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 *
* 2002 $0 *
* 2003 0 *
* 2004 0 *
* 2005 0 *
* 2006 0 *
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All Funds, Five-Year Impact:
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*Fiscal Probable Savings/(Cost) from Change in Number of State *
* Year New Federal Fund outside of Employees from FY 2001 *
* General Revenue *
* 2002 $(907,005) 5.0 *
* 2003 (907,005) 5.0 *
* 2004 (907,005) 5.0 *
* 2005 (907,005) 5.0 *
* 2006 (907,005) 5.0 *
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Fiscal Analysis
The bill would require all inmates serving a sentence for a felony in the
Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
(TDCJ) and all juveniles that have committed felonies and are
incarcerated by the Texas Youth Commission (TYC) to submit samples for
DNA typing and entry into the Department of Public Safety's (DPS)
Combined DNA Index System (CODIS). This bill would apply only to inmates
that enter the system on or after September 1, 2001.
The bill would take effect January 1, 2002. The bill contains a
provision that no general revenue, nor any funds appropriated to TDCJ or
DPS be used to implement the provisions of this bill. The bill further
states that the bill would become null and void if there is no federal
grant money available to pay for its implementation
Methodology
The fiscal note assumes that federal money would be available to pay for
the implementation of the bill.
TDCJ estimates that the bill would increase DNA collection requirements,
however any increase would not have a significant fiscal impact on agency
operations.
TYC estimates the cost to be $40.00 per youth for a blood sample taken
from a private lab. Based on the number of eligible juveniles as
determined by TYC's Research, Planning, and Evaluation Department, the
cost would be $53,000 each fiscal year.
DPS estimates that 18,300 samples would be processed in each fiscal year.
Five additional personnel would be needed to enter the information from
the DNA analysis into DPS systems. The personnel would consist of two
CODIS analysts, two CODIS technicians, and one Automated Fingerprint
Indexing System technician. Total salary costs for these individuals
would be $160,200 per year with associated annual benefits of $45,305.
The DNA samples would be outsourced at a cost of $30 per sample
resulting in annual costs of $549,000. Operating costs for this program
related to sample kits, DNA kits, reagents, glassware and chemical costs
are estimated to be $99,500 each fiscal year.
Local Government Impact
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
Source Agencies: 405 Texas Department of Public Safety, 696 Texas
Department of Criminal Justice, 694 Texas Youth
Commission
LBB Staff: JK, JC, DG