LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE
75th Regular Session
April 1, 1997
TO: Honorable Irma Rangel, Chair IN RE: House Bill No. 2517
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-As Introduced
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