LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                              April 27, 2001
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Senfronia Thompson, Chair, House Committee on
               Judicial Affairs
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  HB3203  by Jones, Jesse (Relating to allowing counties to
               update addresses for potential jurors.), As Introduced
  
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*  No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.                    *
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Local Government Impact
  
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.

The bill would require counties to update the names and addresses
provided by the Department of Public Safety for their county with
information from the United States Postal Service (USPS). If a jury
summons is returned with a notification from USPS that there has been a
change of address, the county or district clerk may change the jury wheel
card for that person to reflect the new address. Travis County indicates
the bill would result in a small savings to the county in postage by
reducing the number of jury summons returns and subsequent remailings,
and allow them to reconstitute their wheel less frequently, another
savings.  This estimate assumes that counties statewide would experience
a similar small savings.
  
  
Source Agencies:   212   Office of Court Administration
LBB Staff:         JK, TB, DW