LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
 
CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT STATEMENT
 
84TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION
 
May 6, 2015

TO:
Honorable Harold V. Dutton, Jr., Chair, House Committee on Juvenile Justice & Family Issues
 
FROM:
Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board
 
IN RE:
HB3665 by Workman (Relating to the commitment of certain juveniles to post-adjudication secure correctional facilities in certain counties and to the release under supervision of those juveniles.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted

The bill would amend various codes to allow juveniles committed to certain local secure post-adjudication facilities with a determinate sentence to be transferred to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to complete the determinate sentence in an adult state correctional institution or under adult parole supervision. The ability to transfer determinate sentence youth is an option for Texas Juvenile Justice Department facilities, and the bill would expand this ability to certain local secure post-adjudication facilities. 
 
Expanding the ability of certain local secure juvenile post-adjudication facilities to transfer determinate sentence youth to the adult state correctional institutions or adult parole supervision is expected to increase demands on adult state correctional agency resources.  In fiscal year 2014, fewer than ten juveniles were committed to local secure juvenile post-adjudication facilities and would be eligible for transfer to adult correctional institutions or adult parole supervision under the circumstances established in the bill.  This analysis assumes the provisions of the bill would not result in a significant impact on state correctional populations, programs, or workloads.








Source Agencies:
LBB Staff:
UP, LM, JPo