LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
 
FISCAL NOTE, 80TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION
 
April 17, 2007

TO:
Honorable Jerry Madden, Chair, House Committee on Corrections
 
FROM:
John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board
 
IN RE:
HB2100 by Haggerty (Relating to medical facilities for inmates released on medically recommended intensive supervision. ), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted



Estimated Two-year Net Impact to General Revenue Related Funds for HB2100, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted: a negative impact of ($6,968,670) through the biennium ending August 31, 2009.

The bill would make no appropriation but could provide the legal basis for an appropriation of funds to implement the provisions of the bill.



Fiscal Year Probable Net Positive/(Negative) Impact to General Revenue Related Funds
2008 ($3,484,335)
2009 ($3,484,335)
2010 ($3,484,335)
2011 ($3,484,335)
2012 ($3,484,335)




Fiscal Year Probable (Cost) from
GENERAL REVENUE FUND
1
2008 ($3,484,335)
2009 ($3,484,335)
2010 ($3,484,335)
2011 ($3,484,335)
2012 ($3,484,335)

Fiscal Analysis

The bill would amend Section 508.146, Government Code, by amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsections (g) and (h). The bill would replace the Department of Human Services with the Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS). The bill adds authorization for Texas Correctional Office on Offenders with Medical or Mental Impairments (TCOOMMI) and DADS jointly with a real estate investment trust to enter into a lease agreement to finance, design and build a medical facility contiguous to an urban area to house the released inmates.  TCOOMMI and DADS can contract with a private vendor to provide treatment services.

Methodology

DADS indicated it was not possible to know the number of individuals potentially eligible for such services, therefore, DADS estimated the costs on 50 individuals. DADS estimated the cost per client per day to be $168.73 (Level 13 Tile 201) and also assumed that approximately 25 percent of the clients would need to receive Ventilator services at an additional cost of $88.77 per day. DADS assumed no existing Medicaid certified facility would admit the population and no Medicaid matching funds would be available, therefore, costs for the services would be 100 percent General Revenue.

 

The DADS estimate does not include any estimate to finance, design and build a medical facility contiguous to an urban area to house the released inmates.


Local Government Impact

No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.


Source Agencies:
539 Aging and Disability Services, Department of
LBB Staff:
JOB, ES, PP, ML