LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  March 26, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Bill Ratliff, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 926, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
          Committee on Finance                              By: Sibley
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB926 ( relating 
to  medical services fees at certain public institutions of 
higher education.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB926-Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
         
No fiscal impact to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
The bill would authorize the Board of Regents of the University 
of North Texas to increase the medical services fee charged 
to students attending the institution.  The fee could not exceed 
$50 for each semester of the regular term or 12-week summer 
session and could not exceed $25 for each six-week or shorter 
term of the summer session.  It is estimated that the medical 
services fee rate would increase gradually at a rate of 10 percent 
each year.  The estimated increase would generate approximately 
$202,900 in institutional funds in Fiscal Year 1998 and $446,400 
in Fiscal Year 1999.

The bill would also authorize the Board 
of Regents of The University of Texas System to increase the 
medical service fee charged to students attending any component 
institution of the system.  The fee could not exceed $75 for 
each semester of the regular term or 12-week summer session 
and could not exceed $50 for each summer session shorter than 
12 weeks but longer than six weeks and  could not exceed $35 
for each six-week or shorter term of the summer session.   The 
increase rates would generate additional institutional funds.

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.
          
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                      LBB Staff:   JK ,RR ,DB