TO: | Honorable Ray Allen, Chair, House Committee on Corrections |
FROM: | John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | HB1480 by Allen (Relating to the efficient administration of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted |
Fiscal Year | Probable Net Positive/(Negative) Impact to General Revenue Related Funds |
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2004 | ($877,643) |
2005 | ($877,643) |
2006 | ($877,643) |
2007 | ($877,643) |
2008 | ($877,643) |
Fiscal Year | Probable Savings/(Cost) fromGENERAL REVENUE FUND 1 |
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2004 | ($877,643) |
2005 | ($877,643) |
2006 | ($877,643) |
2007 | ($877,643) |
2008 | ($877,643) |
The fiscal implications of the bill are based solely on the provision that would require TDCJ to implement a residential infant care and parenting program for mothers who are confined by the department. For the purposes of this analysis it is assumed that the infant care and parenting program would be modeled after TYC’s Women In Need of Greater Strengths (WINGS) program which is designed to accommodate up to 14 mothers and their babies and allow the new mothers to keep their babies for 3 months. It is assumed that TDCJ’s program would parallel TYC’s program by targeting the program for young mothers who will not be incarcerated for more than one year following the birth of a child. Of the 222 women incarcerated by TDCJ that gave birth in fiscal year 2002, 3 were 18 years of age and 10 were 19 years of age. Also of the 222 women incarcerated by TDCJ that gave birth, 105 were incarcerated as state jail felons and on average state jail felons are incarcerated for one year. Even with these assumptions there is difficulty in modeling a TDCJ infant care and parenting program after TYC’s program due to differences in age, time served requirements of adjudications versus sentences, family situations, criminal history and drug abuse history.
TYC’s contract rate of $171.75 per day per offender for the WINGS program includes the cost of day care, food, education and contract-employee salaries. TDCJ currently pays only for prenatal care for mothers and allows the mother to keep the baby for the first 48 hours following birth. The estimated cost per year to implement the program at TDCJ would be $877,643 (14 young women X $171.75/day X 365 days = $877,643).
Source Agencies: | 696 Department of Criminal Justice
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LBB Staff: | JK, WK, VDS, GG, AB, KG
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