LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 14, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Paul Sadler, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 836
          Committee on Public Education                              By: Gallego
          House
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB836 ( Relating 
to optional extended year programs conducted by certain public 
school districts.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB836-As Introduced
         
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
          
The bill would delete Subsection 29.082 (e) of the Education 
Code, which stipulates that students who attend at least 90 
percent of the Optional Extended Year Program will be promoted 
to the next grade level unless the student's parents object 
to the promotion.  

The deletion of Subsection (e) would 
place more emphasis on student performance as criteria for promotion 
rather than attendance.  The program currently promotes more 
than 90 percent of its participants each year.  This bill could 
have the effect of reducing the number of promotions per year 
and thus increasing education costs associated with teaching 
retained students.  Since student performance is already an 
important factor in promotions, however, the removal of Subsection 
(e) is expected to have little effect on retention rates and 
no significant fiscal impact to the state or to local governments 
is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   701   Texas Education Agency - Administration
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,DH ,GJ