LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD Austin, Texas FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session February 26, 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.), As Introduced ************************************************************************** * Estimated Two-year Net Impact to General Revenue Related Fundsfor * * HB588, As Introduced: negative impact of $(5,149,060) 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. * ************************************************************************** All Funds, Six-Year Impact: *************************************************************************** *Fiscal Probable Savings/(Cost) from Change in Number of State * * Year General Revenue Fund Employees from FY 2001 * * 0001 * * 2002 $(2,707,540) 6.0 * * 2003 (2,441,520) 6.0 * * 2004 (985,310) 6.0 * * 2005 (987,070) 6.0 * * 2006 (988,670) 6.0 * *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** *Fiscal Probable Savings/(Cost) from Change in Number of State * * Year General Revenue Fund Employees from FY 2000 * * 0001 * * 2001 $(396,081) 6.0 * * 2002 (2,635,423) 6.0 * * 2003 (2,117,556) 6.0 * * 2004 (985,310) 6.0 * * 2005 (987,070) 6.0 * * 2006 (988,670) 6.0 * *************************************************************************** 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 to current inmates as well as those who enter the system in the future. The bill would take effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house. Otherwise the bill would take effect September 1, 2001. Methodology TDCJ estimates that the bill would increase DNA collection requirements approximately tenfold, however, the bill 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 $194,680 during fiscal year 2002 and approximately $53,000 each subsequent year. DPS estimates that the taking of DNA samples from all present inmates and the ones arriving in the system yearly, could be completed in two fiscal years. After the first two years, DPS would only have to take samples from arriving inmates. In fiscal year 2002, the cost would be approximately $2.5 million, in fiscal year 2003 $2.4 million, and 934,000 in fiscal year 2004 and subsequent years. DPS estimates that the number of additional samples that would occur is 65,300 in fiscal year 2002, 61,700 in fiscal year 2003, and 18,300 in subsequent years. Six additional personnel would be needed to enter the information from the DNA analysis into DPS systems. The personnel would consist of three CODIS analysts, 2 CODIS technicians, and one Automated Fingerprint Indexing System technician. Total salary costs for these individuals would be $198,480 per year with associated annual benefits of $56,130. The DNA samples would be outsourced at a cost of $30 per sample resulting in a $1,959,000 cost in fiscal year 2002, $1,851,000 in fiscal year 2003, and $549,000 in subsequent fiscal years. Operating costs for this program related to sample kits, DNA kits, reagents, glassware and chemical costs are estimated to be $287,850 in fiscal year 2002, $274,150 in fiscal year 2003, and $119,100 in subsequent fiscal years. The second table shows the costs as would occur if the bill were to take effect immediately. Essentially a portion of the costs that would occur in fiscal years 2002 and 2003 would be allocated to fiscal year 2001. Local Government Impact No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated. Source Agencies: 694 Texas Youth Commission, 405 Texas Department of Public Safety, 696 Texas Department of Criminal Justice LBB Staff: JK, JC, JN, DG