LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                         February 8, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Bill Ratliff, Chair          IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 397
         Committee on Education                         By: Ratliff
         Senate
         Austin, Texas






FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on Senate Bill No.
397   (Relating to service areas of community college districts.)
this office has determined the following:

The bill would establish service areas for community college
districts and would obligate community colleges to provide
prebacculaureate lower division academic education, workforce
education and workforce training and services to residents and
employers in their service areas within available state
appropriations and local funds.  The bill would authorize
residents and employers within a community college district
service area but outside the taxing area to request another
institution to provide a service if the local district is unable
to deliver the service.

The bill does not change total state funding for community
colleges but could cause a redistribution of funding among
community college districts.  The fiscal implication on community
college districts cannot be determined.


No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

The fiscal implication to  units of local government cannot be
determined.


Source:   Comptroller of Public Accounts, Council on Workforce
and Economic Competitiveness,
                         Higher Education Coordinating Board    




          LBB Staff: JK, LS, DF