LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  May 7, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Bill Ratliff, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 2933, 
As Engrossed
          Committee on Finance                              By: Coleman
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB2933 ( relating 
to the establishment of a recreational facility fees at Texas 
Southern University) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB2933-As Engrossed
         
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
The bill would authorize the Board of Regents of Texas Southern 
University to levy and collect a recreational facility fee to 
operate, maintain, improve and equip a recreational facility 
or program.  The fee could not exceed $50 for each semester 
of the regular session or each summer session.  The fee could 
not be increased by more than 10 percent in any academic year 
without approval by a majority vote of the students voting in 
a general student election called for this purpose or a majority 
of the student government.

If it is approved by the students, 
Texas Southern University intends to charge the maximum fee 
beginning in fiscal year 1998.  It is estimated that the recreational 
facility fee increase would generate approximately $975,700 
in institutional funds each year.  These fees are auxiliary 
in nature and do not affect the state supported educational 
and general operations of the university.

          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   717   Texas Southern University
                                         781   Higher Education Coordinating Board
                                         
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