LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                              April 5, 2001
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Kenneth Armbrister, Chair, Senate Committee on
               Criminal Justice
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  SB1304  by Harris (relating to the creation of a missing
               persons DNA database at the University of North Texas
               Health Science Center; creating an offense for release
               of confidential information in database and failure to
               destroy samples.), Committee Report 1st House,
               Substituted
  
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*  Estimated Two-year Net Impact to General Revenue Related Funds for    *
*  SB1304, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted:  positive impact     *
*  of $0 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.                                                             *
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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                                   $0  *
          *       2003                                    0  *
          *       2004                                    0  *
          *       2005                                    0  *
          *       2006                                    0  *
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All Funds, Five-Year Impact:
  
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*Fiscal      Probable        Probable        Probable       Change in     *
* Year    Savings/(Cost)     Revenue      Savings/(Cost) Number of State  *
*              from        Gain/(Loss)       from New     Employees from  *
*        Compensation to     from New    General Revenue     FY 2001      *
*           Victims of   General Revenue    Dedicated                     *
*         Crime Account/    Dedicated     UNTHSC Missing                  *
*          GR-Dedicated   UNTHSC Missing   Persons DNA                    *
*              0469        Persons DNA    Database Fund                   *
*                         Database Fund                                   *
*  2002        $(732,588)        $732,588      $(732,588)             4.0 *
*  2003         (401,070)         401,070       (401,070)             4.0 *
*  2004         (413,102)         413,102       (413,102)             4.0 *
*  2005         (425,495)         425,495       (425,495)             4.0 *
*  2006         (438,260)         438,260       (438,260)             4.0 *
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Fiscal Analysis
  
The bill would establish a DNA database for missing or unidentified
persons at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort
Worth.  Funds to establish and maintain the database would be
appropriated from  the Compensation to Victims of Crime Fund and the
Compensation to Victims of Crime Auxiliary Fund and deposited to a new
General Revenue-dedicated fund, the University of North Texas Health
Science Center at Fort Worth Missing Persons DNA Database Fund.
  
  
Methodology
  
The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth
estimates that establishing the new database would require first year
start up costs of $343,200 for renovation and equipment.  UNTHSC
estimates that they would need an additional 4.0 FTEs with salary and
benefits totaling $269,388 and annual operating costs for the database of
$120,000, with these costs increasing by three percent each year.

It is assumed that all expenditures would be appropriated out of the
Compensation to Victims of Crime Fund.
  
  
Local Government Impact
  
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.
  
  
Source Agencies:   302   Office of the Attorney General, 763   UNT
                   Health Science Center
LBB Staff:         JK, JC, MG