LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          April 27, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Bill Ratliff, Chair          IN RE:  Senate Bill No.
         Committee on Education                 1491,
         Senate                                               as amended
         Austin, Texas                                  By: Shapiro








FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on Senate Bill No.
1491 (Relating to testing and remedial education of students 55
years of age or older and to tuition and fees charged to those
students at public institutions of higher education) this office
has determined the following:

The bill would exempt a non-degree or non-certificate seeking
student 55 years of age or older from the requirements of the
Texas Academic Skills Program.  The bill would also allow public
institutions of higher education to charge such students tuition
which is lower than the tuition rate set in statute under the
condition that in doing so a student under 55 years of age would
not be precluded from enrolling in a course for credit toward a
degree or certificate.  Finally, the bill would prevent the
Legislature in an appropriations act from accounting for reduced
tuition, as a result of reduced tuition to students 55 years or
older, in such a manner as to increase general revenue
appropriations to that institution.

Because the bill would specify that reduced tuition revenue as a
result of reduced tuition charges for non-degree/non-certificate
seeking students 55 years or older would not result in increased
general revenue appropriations, no fiscal impact to the State is
anticipated.    




Source:
          LBB Staff: JK, MK, WRR