LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 18, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Teel Bivins, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 1379, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
          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-Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
         
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 changes would not require additional staff 
or resources at the Texas Education Agency (TEA).   TEA already 
receives funds for developing the management information system 
to measure student skills.  Work on the individual assessment 
instrument has been ongoing since 1994, and funding for the 
continued development should come from existing program evaluation 
funds at participating agencies.
          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   701   Texas Education Agency - Administration
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,LP ,JA