LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                           May 4, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Irma Rangel, Chair           IN RE: Committee Substitute
         Committee on Higher Education          for
         House of Representatives                             HouseBill No.
         Austin, Texas                          628
                                                            








FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No.
628 (Relating to tuition fees and student loans of certain
graduate students employed as teaching assistants, assistant
instructors, or research assistants at certain public
institutions of higher education) this office has determined the
following:

The bill would allow governing boards of public general academic
teaching institutions to exempt from payment of tuition and fees
graduate students (resident or nonresident) who 1) are employed
as teaching or research assistants or assistant instructors; 2)
are researching or writing a thesis, dissertation, or other
report required by their degree plan; and 3) are not enrolled in
a course with organized course work.

The bill would direct the Legislature in its appropriations to
general academic institutions to compute local funds available to
institutions as if the tuition charges for which the bill's
exemptions are granted had been collected.


No fiscal implication to the State or units of local government
is anticipated.


Source:
          LBB Staff: JK, MK, WRR