LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 17, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Bill Ratliff, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 1491
          Committee on Finance                              By: Ellis
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB1491 ( Relating 
to the creation of the self-sufficiency fund to develop job 
training for certain recipients of the financial assistance 
program for persons with dependent children.) this office has 
detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB1491-As Introduced
         
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
          
The bill would amend Subtitle B, Title 4 of the Labor Code by 
adding Chapter 308 which would create a self-sufficiency fund 
outside of the state treasury for use by public community colleges, 
technical colleges, and community-based organizations as start-up 
or emergency funds to develop job training programs for certain 
recipients of financial assistance.

No fiscal implication 
to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   320   Texas Workforce Commission
                                         304   Comptroller of Public Accounts
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,RR ,RA