LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 16, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Bill Ratliff, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 1366
          Committee on Finance                              By: Ellis
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB1366 ( Relating 
to the establishment of a recreational facility fee at Texas 
Southern University.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB1366-As Introduced
         
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
FISCAL ANALYSIS
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.

METHODOLOGY
If the fee is approved 
by the students,  it is assumed that Texas Southern University 
would charge the maximum fee beginning in fiscal year 1998. 
 It is estimated that the recreational facility fee 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.
          
LOCAL
No fiscal implication to units of local government is 
anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   781   Higher Education Coordinating Board
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,RR ,DB