LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 2, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Carlos F. Truan, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 1518
          Committee on International Relations, Trade & Technology                              By: Truan
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB1518 ( Relating 
to the creation of a Texas High Technology Partnership Center 
at the Geo-Technology Research Institute.) this office has detemined 
the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB1518-As Introduced
         
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated. 
 


         
The bill would make no appropriation but could provide the legal 
basis for an appropriation of funds to implement the provisions 
of the bill.
         
 
The bill would amend the Education Code to establish the Texas 
High Technology Partnership Center at the Geo-Technology Research 
Institute.  The bill would authorize the new center to receive 
funds from the state or federal government or from private sources. 
 The Legislature could appropriate funds to the center for the 
purposes laid out in the bill.
          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   781   Higher Education Coordinating Board
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,TH ,LD