LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE
74th Regular Session
April 5, 1995
TO: Honorable Bill Ratliff, Chair IN RE: Committee Substitute
Committee on Education for
Senate Senate Bill
Austin, Texas No. 1154
By: Ratliff
FROM: John Keel, Director
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on Senate Bill No.
1154 (Relating to the conditional grant program of the Texas
Department of Transportation) this office has determined the
following:
The bill would make no appropriation but could provide the legal
basis for an appropriation of funds to implement the provisions
of the bill.
The bill would expand the Texas Department of Transportation
Conditional Grant Program to include women as well as minorities;
to include occupations other than civil engineering; to place the
conditional grant account in the State Highway Fund; and to
require the Texas Department of Transportation to issue no less
than $400,000 annually in conditional grants. This last
provision would require an additional $200,000 per year above
what is previously allocated for grants.
The estimates assume 41 new students would be added to the
program. However, it is also assumed that these students would
have enrolled in college without the stipends, therefore the bill
would have no impact on total enrollment.
The probable fiscal implication of implementing the provisions of
the bill during each of the first five years following passage
is estimated as follows:
Fiscal Probable Cost Out
Year of State Highway
Fund 006
1996 $200,000
1997 200,000
1998 200,000
1999 200,000
2000 200,000
Similar annual fiscal implications would continue as long as the
provisions of the bill are in effect.
No fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.
Source: Higher Education Coordinating Board
LBB Staff: JK, MK, WRR