LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                              March 28, 2001
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Bob Turner, Chair, House Committee on Public
               Safety
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  HB2113  by Allen (relating to the administration and
               applicability of the sex offender registration program
               and to the other requirements imposed on sex
               offenders.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
  
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*  Estimated Two-year Net Impact to General Revenue Related Funds for    *
*  HB2113, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted:  negative impact     *
*  of $(511,176) through the biennium ending August 31, 2003.            *
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*  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                           $(445,870)  *
          *       2003                             (65,306)  *
          *       2004                             (65,306)  *
          *       2005                             (65,306)  *
          *       2006                             (65,306)  *
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All Funds, Five-Year Impact:
  
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*Fiscal    Probable Savings/(Cost) from     Change in Number of State     *
* Year         General Revenue Fund           Employees from FY 2001      *
*                      0001                                               *
*  2002                        $(445,870)                             2.5 *
*  2003                          (65,306)                             0.5 *
*  2004                          (65,306)                             0.5 *
*  2005                          (65,306)                             0.5 *
*  2006                          (65,306)                             0.5 *
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Fiscal Analysis
  
The bill would make it mandatory for all convicted sex offenders to
submit a blood sample or other specimen to the Department of Public
Safety (DPS) for the purpose of creating a DNA record of the defendant.
The bill would cover adult and juvenile sex offenders on probation,
offenders on parole and mandatory supervision, and offenders in the
Department of Criminal Justice and the Texas Youth Commission who have
not yet submitted a blood sample.

The bill would take effect September 1, 2001.
  
  
Methodology
  
DPS estimates that there are approximately 10,000 convicted sex offenders
that would be affected by this bill that have not given blood samples
for DNA analysis.  For Fiscal years 2003 and beyond it is estimated that
a total of 1,500 DNA samples would be taken due to the amount of
offenders being placed on probation or parole during those particular
years.

DPS estimates that the 10,000 convicted sex offenders could be processed
by the DPS crime laboratory during fiscal year 2002 if the samples are
analyzed on a contractual basis at a first year cost of $445,870.  This
cost includes 2.5 full-time DNA technicians at with salary costs of
$83,700 and associated benefits of $23,670.  In subsequent years to deal
with the probation and parole samples, DPS would need only a part-time
DNA technician with a salary cost of $13,140 an associated benefits of
$3,716 annually.

Other expenses include operating expenses which would be $2,250 in fiscal
year 2002 dropping to $450 in subsequent years and DNA sample processing
kits which would be $336,250 in fiscal year 2002 dropping to $48,000 in
subsequent years.
  
  
Local Government Impact
  
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.
  
  
Source Agencies:   405   Texas Department of Public Safety
LBB Staff:         JK, JC, DG