LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 9, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Bill Ratliff, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 781, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
          Committee on Finance                              By: Ellis
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB781 ( Relating 
to the creation and operation of the Texans Work program and 
the establishment of the Texas employment and training account.)) 
this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB781-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.

         
 
FISCAL ANALYSIS AND METHODOLOGY
The bill would implement the 
Comptroller of Public Accounts' Texas Performance Review (TPR) 
recommendation WF5 in Disturbing the Peace:  The Challenge of 
Change in Texas Government.  The bill would establish a new, 
dedicated Texas Employment and Training Account (account) within 
the General Revenue Fund 0001, to be used only for the payment 
of training stipends and for other authorized training activities. 
  The account would be composed of employer contributions and 
state matching funds obtained through the block grant received 
by the state under the JOBS training program.  It is assumed 
that the cost of implementation could be accomplished with existing 
personnel and resources at the Texas Workforce Commission and 
the Department of Human Services.
          
LOCAL
No fiscal implication to units of local government is 
anticipated.
          
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