LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 14, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Teel Bivins, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 1379
          Committee on Education                              By: Ellis
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB1379 ( Relating 
to adult education programs.) this office has detemined the 
following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB1379-As Introduced
         
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
          
This bill would implement the Texas Performance Review recommendation 
WF3 in Disturbing the Peace:  The Challenge of Change in Texas 
Government.  These activities would not require additional staff 
or resources from either the Texas Education Agency (TEA) or 
the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC).  TEA already receives 
funds for developing the management information system to measure 
student data.  Work on the individual assessment instrument 
has been ongoing since 1994, and funding for the continued development 
should come from existing discretionary and workforce program 
evaluation funds at TWC, TEA, and the Texas Council on Workforce 
and Economic Competitiveness.

No new funding would be required 
to accomplish these changes.  The assessment and evaluation 
of programs and individuals should already be an integral part 
of the adult education program.  Transfer of the program would 
not result in any savings nor in any additional costs. 

No 
fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   701   Texas Education Agency - Administration
                                         304   Comptroller of Public Accounts
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,LP ,JA