LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE
75th Regular Session
May 8, 1997
TO: Honorable Teel Bivins, Chair IN RE: House Bill No. 2517, As Engrossed
Committee on Education By: Dunnam
Senate
Austin, Texas
FROM: John Keel, Director
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB2517 ( Relating
to state oversight and evaluation of public junior college districts
and other postsecondary institutions of vocational or technical
education.) this office has detemined the following:
Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB2517-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 implement Texas Performance Review
recommendation ED 15 in Disturbing the Peace: The Challenge
of Change in Texas Government. The bill would require the Higher
Education Coordinating Board to collect, maintain, and report
comparative data from the community/junior colleges. There
would be some cost to the Coordinating Board for additional
programming, staff, and computer resources to collect and analyze
the data. These costs are not expected to be significant.
The
bill would also require the State Auditor to provide the community/junior
colleges with written information relating to the procedures
and scope of the independent audits of the community/junior
colleges. This is within the current audit activities of the
State Auditor and would entail no additional costs to the state.
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
Source: Agencies: 781 Higher Education Coordinating Board
304 Comptroller of Public Accounts
LBB Staff: JK ,LP ,DB