Texas 2023 88th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB1960 Fiscal Note / Fiscal Note

Filed 04/11/2023

                    LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD     Austin, Texas       FISCAL NOTE, 88TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION             April 11, 2023       TO: Honorable John Whitmire, Chair, Senate Committee on Criminal Justice     FROM: Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board      IN RE: SB1960 by Perry (Relating to the carrying of weapons by community supervision and corrections department officers, juvenile probation officers, and certain retired law enforcement officers and to criminal liability for taking a weapon from certain of those officers.), As Introduced     No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated. The bill would add community supervision and corrections department officers, juvenile probation officers, and certain retired law enforcement officers to the list of individuals to which the criminal offenses of unlawful carrying of a weapon and carrying a weapon at certain places do not apply. The bill would also expand the conduct constituting the felony offense of taking or attempting to take a weapon from certain individuals working in public safety to include taking or attempting to take a weapon from a juvenile probation officer. It is assumed that any fiscal impact and any impact on state correctional populations or on the demand for state correctional resources would not be significant.  Local Government ImpactIt is assumed that any fiscal impact to units of local government associated with enforcement, prosecution, supervision, or confinement would not be significant.  Source Agencies: b > td > 212 Office of Court Administration, Texas Judicial Council, 405 Department of Public Safety, 407 Commission on Law Enforcement, 644 Juvenile Justice Department  LBB Staff: b > td > JMc, DDel, LBO, DGI

LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE, 88TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION
April 11, 2023

 

 

  TO: Honorable John Whitmire, Chair, Senate Committee on Criminal Justice     FROM: Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board      IN RE: SB1960 by Perry (Relating to the carrying of weapons by community supervision and corrections department officers, juvenile probation officers, and certain retired law enforcement officers and to criminal liability for taking a weapon from certain of those officers.), As Introduced   

TO: Honorable John Whitmire, Chair, Senate Committee on Criminal Justice
FROM: Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE: SB1960 by Perry (Relating to the carrying of weapons by community supervision and corrections department officers, juvenile probation officers, and certain retired law enforcement officers and to criminal liability for taking a weapon from certain of those officers.), As Introduced

 Honorable John Whitmire, Chair, Senate Committee on Criminal Justice

 Honorable John Whitmire, Chair, Senate Committee on Criminal Justice

 Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board 

 Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board 

 SB1960 by Perry (Relating to the carrying of weapons by community supervision and corrections department officers, juvenile probation officers, and certain retired law enforcement officers and to criminal liability for taking a weapon from certain of those officers.), As Introduced 

 SB1960 by Perry (Relating to the carrying of weapons by community supervision and corrections department officers, juvenile probation officers, and certain retired law enforcement officers and to criminal liability for taking a weapon from certain of those officers.), As Introduced 



No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

The bill would add community supervision and corrections department officers, juvenile probation officers, and certain retired law enforcement officers to the list of individuals to which the criminal offenses of unlawful carrying of a weapon and carrying a weapon at certain places do not apply. The bill would also expand the conduct constituting the felony offense of taking or attempting to take a weapon from certain individuals working in public safety to include taking or attempting to take a weapon from a juvenile probation officer. It is assumed that any fiscal impact and any impact on state correctional populations or on the demand for state correctional resources would not be significant.

 Local Government Impact

It is assumed that any fiscal impact to units of local government associated with enforcement, prosecution, supervision, or confinement would not be significant.

Source Agencies: b > td > 212 Office of Court Administration, Texas Judicial Council, 405 Department of Public Safety, 407 Commission on Law Enforcement, 644 Juvenile Justice Department

212 Office of Court Administration, Texas Judicial Council, 405 Department of Public Safety, 407 Commission on Law Enforcement, 644 Juvenile Justice Department

LBB Staff: b > td > JMc, DDel, LBO, DGI

JMc, DDel, LBO, DGI