TO:	Honorable Dan Huberty, Chair, House Committee on Public Education
FROM:	Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:	HB1799 by Dale (Relating to employing, terminating, and reporting misconduct of public school personnel and related entity personnel, including creating a registry of persons ineligible for hire; creating a criminal offense.), As Introduced

The provisions of the bill addressing felony sanctions would amend the Education Code as it relates to reporting certain misconduct. Under the provisions of the bill, failure to file a report about certain misconduct or a criminal record of an educator by certain persons under certain circumstances would become a new criminal offense. The offense would be punishable as a Class A Misdemeanor or a state jail felony depending on the specific circumstances of the offense.
 
A state jail felony is punishable by confinement in a state jail for a term from 180 days to 2 years or Class A Misdemeanor punishment.  In addition to confinement, all felony level offenses are subject to an optional fine not to exceed $10,000. 

Creating a new criminal offense is expected to result in increased demands upon the correctional resources of counties or of the State due to a potential increase in the number of individuals sentenced to a term of supervision in the community or a term of confinement in state correctional institutions.  This analysis assumes the provisions of the bill addressing felony sanctions would not result in a significant impact on the demand for state correctional resources.