LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  March 23, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Bill Ratliff, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 850
          Committee on Finance                              By: Luna, Gregory
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB850 ( Relating 
to the student union building fees at The University of Texas 
at San Antonio.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB850-As Introduced
         
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
Similar annual fiscal implications The bill would authorize 
the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System to increase 
the student union fee charged to students enrolled at The University 
of Texas at San Antonio to finance, operate, maintain, and improve 
a student union building.  The fee could not be less than $20 
or more than $75 for each semester or summer session, assessed 
in proportion to the number of credit hours for which a student 
registers. 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 by a majority of the student government.

It 
is estimated that the student union fee increase would generate 
approximately $349,800 in institutional funds beginning in Fiscal 
Year 1998, increasing to $430,230 in Fiscal Year 1999 when the 
fee is estimated to increase an additional 10 percent.  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:   720   University of Texas System Administration
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,RR ,DB