LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                              March 6, 2001
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Pat Haggerty, Chair, House Committee on
               Corrections
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  HB1585  by Gallego (Relating to the completion of a
               sentence in a felony after revocation of parole,
               mandatory supervision, or conditional pardon.), As
               Introduced
  
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*  No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.        *
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The bill would amend the Government Code to allow certain nonviolent
offenders to have a portion of their time served under parole supervision
be credited toward sentence completion when being revoked to prison.
Under current law, offenders revoked to prison lose all "outside" time
served under parole supervision.

The bill would decrease the demand for prison space and decrease the
parole population under supervision, which would result in savings for
state corrections.
  
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