LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 16, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Bill Ratliff, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 1367
          Committee on Finance                              By: Ellis
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB1367 ( Relating 
to the establishment of a medical services fee at Texas Southern 
University.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB1367-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 medical services 
fee to operate, maintain, improve and equip a medical services 
facility.  The fee could not exceed $35 for each semester of 
the regular session or $17.50 for each term of the 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 medical services 
fee would generate approximately $628,000 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