LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE
75th Regular Session
May 15, 1997
TO: Honorable Bill Ratliff, Chair IN RE: House Bill No. 1384,
As Engrossed
Committee on Finance By: Telford
Senate
Austin, Texas
FROM: John Keel, Director
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB1384 ( relating
to the tuition charged to certain nonresident students registered
at certain upper-level public institutions of higher education)
this office has detemined the following:
Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB1384-As Engrossed
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
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 allow residents of bordering
states to enroll in public upper level institutions in adjacent
Texas counties and pay the Texas resident tuition rate. Texas
A&M - Texarkana is the only institution that would meet this
requirement.
Fiscal Analysis
Eligible students currently
enrolled at TAMU-Texarkana who do not already qualify for existing
nonresident tuition waivers would no longer be required to pay
the out-of-state tuition rate of $246 per semester credit hour
but would pay only the resident tuition rate of $34.
Methodology
It
is assumed that additional students from Arkansas would take
courses at TAMU-Texarkana if this exemption were available.
This estimate assumes that an additional 34 students would
enroll in 1998. The formula funding average rate per hour is
$145. The estimated cost to general revenue for these additional
students is $118,500 in 1998.
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: Agencies: 781 Higher Education Coordinating Board
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