LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD

Austin, Texas

FISCAL NOTE, 86TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION

March 13, 2019

TO:	Honorable Nicole Collier, Chair, House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence
FROM:	John McGeady, Assistant Director     Sarah Keyton, Assistant Director Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:	HB226 by Krause (relating to the creation of a commission to review certain penal laws of this state and to make certain recommendations regarding those laws, to criminal offenses previously compiled in statutes outside the Penal Code, to repealing certain of those offenses, and to conforming punishments for certain of those offenses to the penalty structure provided in the Penal Code; increasing the punishment for the criminal offenses of sedition, sabotage, and capital sabotage; imposing a civil penalty.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted

No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

The bill would create a commission to study and review certain penal laws, reporting findings and recommendations no later than November 1, 2020. Commission members would not be entitled to compensation and the commission would be abolished on December 31, 2020. The bill would amend, transfer, repeal and redesignate various criminal offenses, moving certain offenses into the Penal Code from elsewhere in Texas statute and revising penalties associated with certain offenses.

This analysis assumes the provisions of the bill addressing felony sanctions for criminal offenses would not result in a significant impact on state correctional agencies.

The provisions of the bill would only apply to offenses committed on or after September 1, 2019.

Local Government Impact

No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.

Source Agencies:

212 Office of Court Administration, Texas Judicial Council, 304 Comptroller of Public Accounts, 696 Department of Criminal Justice, 802 Parks and Wildlife Department

LBB Staff:

WP, LBO, JQ, PM, DGi