LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 2, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Irma Rangel, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 2517, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
          Committee on Higher Education                              By: Dunnam
          House
          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-Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
         
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