LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          March 3, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Bill Ratliff, Chair          IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 694
         Committee on Education                         By: Montford
         Senate
         Austin, Texas






FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on Senate Bill No.
694 (Relating to the exemption from tuition of a resident student
enrolled in the Southwest Collegiate Institute for the Deaf.)
this office has determined the following:

The bill would exempt deaf students who are Texas residents from
payment of tuition and fees for each course in which the person
enrolls at Southwest Collegiate Institute for the Deaf of Howard
College.  

Based on enrollment and tuition rates for the fall semester of
1994, the Southwest Collegiate Institute for the Deaf would have
foregone $32,852 in resident tuition and fee revenue.  Assuming
constant levels of enrollment and tuition rates for the future,
the Southwest Collegiate Institute for the Deaf would lose
approximately $66,000 in tuition and fee revenue each year.  Any
increases in the tuition rates at Howard Junior College would
increase proportionately the amount of foregone tuition revenue.


No fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.    




Source:   Higher Education Coordinating Board
          LBB Staff: JK, LS, BR, DF