LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          April 26, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Keith Oakley, Chair          IN RE:  Senate BillNo. 964,
         Committee on Public Safety                           as engrossed
         House of Representatives                       By: Harris, Chris
         Austin, Texas








FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on Senate Bill No.
964 (Relating to the regulation of driver training; providing a
penalty.) this office has determined the following:

The bill  transfers the regulation and administration of driver
education programs currently under the direction of the Texas
Education Agency to the Higher Education Coordinating Board.  The
bill rewrites guidelines and qualifications for commercial
drivers education and grants the authority to certain commercial
driver education schools to conduct driver's license testing and
issuance of instruction permits currently granted only by DPS.

All costs associated with driver education programs are paid by
fees collected from the driver education schools.

Therefore, no cost to the state or local government is
anticipated as a result of transferring the regulatory authority
of driver education.  While granting authority to issue
instruction permits to commercial driving schools will increase
the data workload of the DPS Headquarters personnel,  DPS field
Driver License Service employees should experience a decrease of
7 percent of total transactions processed.  The costs savings
associated with an anticipated reduction in field office work
should offset cost increases for Headquarters work.

It is anticipated, with DPS cost offsets, that the bill has no
significant fiscal implications to the state or units of local
government.    




    
 
    







Source:   LBB Staff: JK, CT, RR