Honorable Abel Herrero, Chair, House Committee on Corrections
FROM:
Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:
HB1449 by Collier (Relating to certain technical violations of conditions of community supervision.), As Introduced
Reducing the circumstances in which an individual may be revoked from community supervision may result in a decrease in demands upon state correctional resources due to a decrease in the number of individuals admitted to state correctional institutions. The fiscal implications of the bill cannot be determined due to the lack of data necessary to identify cases of revocation from community supervision which would meet the criteria established by the bill's provisions.
The bill would prohibit a judge from revoking the community supervision of a person serving a sentence on community supervision for a nonviolent state jail felony or third degree felony for certain technical violations and instead would authorize only the continuation, extension, or modification of the community supervision.
The bill would also require the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) to adopt policies and procedures to determine savings realized through the bill's modified revocation policies and apply these funds to certain distributions. TDCJ indicates that no significant fiscal impact is anticipated.
The Office of Court Administration anticipates no significant impact to the state court system.
Local Government Impact
The fiscal impact to units of local government cannot be determined but would be dependent on the number of community supervision revocations, extensions and modifications as well as the number of individuals required to serve a term of confinement.
Source Agencies:
212 Office of Court Administration, Texas Judicial Council, 696 Department of Criminal Justice