LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD Austin, Texas FISCAL NOTE, 84TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION May 7, 2015 TO: Honorable Abel Herrero, Chair, House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence FROM: Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board IN RE:SB1057 by Hinojosa (relating to the provision of funding for indigent defense services.), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated. The bill would amend the Government Code to permit the Texas Indigent Defense Commission to award grants to law schools and regional public defender programs serving two or more counties that provides at least 50 percent of the operating costs of the program. The bill would also require the Commission to collect each county's share of the program's costs and distribute them to the regional public defender program. The bill would provide that participating counties and regional public defender offices agree to a Commission-approved means to pay outstanding defense costs for cases pending in the county after the termination of the agreement of the county's participation in the agreement.Based on this analysis, duties and responsibilities associated with implementing the provisions of the bill could be accomplished by utilizing existing resources. Local Government Impact Counties participating in a regional public defender program would be required to provide the county's share in meeting 50 percent of the operating costs of the program to the Commission. These amounts would be distributed to the regional public defender program. Source Agencies:212 Office of Court Administration, Texas Judicial Council, 304 Comptroller of Public Accounts LBB Staff: UP, TB, KJo, MW, KVe, GDz
LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE, 84TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION
May 7, 2015
TO: Honorable Abel Herrero, Chair, House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence FROM: Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board IN RE:SB1057 by Hinojosa (relating to the provision of funding for indigent defense services.), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted
TO: Honorable Abel Herrero, Chair, House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence
FROM: Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE: SB1057 by Hinojosa (relating to the provision of funding for indigent defense services.), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted
Honorable Abel Herrero, Chair, House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence
Honorable Abel Herrero, Chair, House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence
Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board
Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board
SB1057 by Hinojosa (relating to the provision of funding for indigent defense services.), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted
SB1057 by Hinojosa (relating to the provision of funding for indigent defense services.), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
The bill would amend the Government Code to permit the Texas Indigent Defense Commission to award grants to law schools and regional public defender programs serving two or more counties that provides at least 50 percent of the operating costs of the program. The bill would also require the Commission to collect each county's share of the program's costs and distribute them to the regional public defender program. The bill would provide that participating counties and regional public defender offices agree to a Commission-approved means to pay outstanding defense costs for cases pending in the county after the termination of the agreement of the county's participation in the agreement.Based on this analysis, duties and responsibilities associated with implementing the provisions of the bill could be accomplished by utilizing existing resources.
Local Government Impact
Counties participating in a regional public defender program would be required to provide the county's share in meeting 50 percent of the operating costs of the program to the Commission. These amounts would be distributed to the regional public defender program.
Source Agencies: 212 Office of Court Administration, Texas Judicial Council, 304 Comptroller of Public Accounts
212 Office of Court Administration, Texas Judicial Council, 304 Comptroller of Public Accounts
LBB Staff: UP, TB, KJo, MW, KVe, GDz
UP, TB, KJo, MW, KVe, GDz