LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                              March 12, 2001
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Juan Hinojosa, Chair, House Committee on
               Criminal Jurisprudence
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  HB839  by Hinojosa (Relating to time served under
               community supervision as a credit against a sentence
               executed after revocation of community supervision.), As
               Introduced
  
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*  No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.        *
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The bill would amend the Code of Criminal Procedure to allow time served
on community supervision to be credited as time served in jail or in the
Institutional Division upon revocation.  Currently, no part of the time
the defendant is on community service is treated as a credit against a
sentence executed after revocation of community service.

The bill is likely to reduce the demand for prison and jail space, the
extent of which would be based on the amount of community supervision
time credited against sentences executed after revocation of community
supervision.
  
Local Government Impact
  
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.
  
  
Source Agencies:   696   Texas Department of Criminal Justice
LBB Staff:         JK, JC, GG