Honorable Jerry Madden, Chair, House Committee on Corrections
FROM:
John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:
SB61 by Zaffirini (Relating to juvenile case managers. ), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
The committee substitute would amend Article 45.056, Code of Criminal Procedure to allow a court or governing body to pay for the salary, training, travel, office supplies and other necessary expenses of a juvenile case manager from the juvenile case manager fund that may be established under Article 102.0174, Code of Criminal Procedure. The committee substitute would also allow the employing governmental entity of juvenile case managers to create minimum standards for the position, which include a code of ethics and minimum education and training requirements. For this analysis, it is assumed that any work resulting from the passage of this bill could be reasonably absorbed with current resources. This analysis determines that implementing the provisions of the bill would not pose a significant fiscal impact to the state.
Local Government Impact
The committee substitute would allow funds from the juvenile case manager fund to pay for the training of juvenile case managers and would require the governing body of a locality to adopt a code of ethics, minimum education requirements and minimum training standards for juvenile case managers. Fiscal impact would vary depending on the cost of training and the amount in the fund in a given locality but is not anticipated to be significant.