LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                         February 7, 1995



 TO:     Honorable David Sibley, Chair          IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 215
         Committee on Economic Development              By:  Truan
         Senate
         Austin, Texas






FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on Senate Bill No.
215 (Relating to the establishment of a self-employment
assistance program.) this office has determined the following:

The bill would allow the Texas Employment Commission (TEC) to
offer a self-employment assistance program to individuals
eligible for unemployment benefits.  Federal legislation (Section
507 of the North American Free Trade Agreement) provides TEC with
the option of offering a self-employment assistance program . 
Participants in the program would receive a self-employment
assistance allowance and training designed to help them start
their own businesses instead of the regular unemployment
benefits.  The amount of the allowance and the source of funding
for the allowance is the same as the regular unemployment
benefits.


The Texas Employment Commission anticipates that entrepreneurial
course costs could be funded from existing Job Training
Partnership Act grants.  Based on this assumption, no significant
fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

No fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.


Source:   Texas Employment Commission
          LBB Staff: JK, CG, RR, DF