LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD Austin, Texas FISCAL NOTE, 76th Regular Session April 26, 1999 TO: Honorable Teel Bivins, Chair, Senate Committee on Education FROM: John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board IN RE: SB3 by Bivins (relating to master reading teaching certification, grants, and stipends), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted ************************************************************************** * Estimated Two-year Net Impact to General Revenue Related Funds for * * SB3, Committee Report 1st House, Substituted: negative impact of * * $(12,350,000) through the biennium ending August 31, 2001. * * * * The bill would make no appropriation but could provide the legal * * basis for an appropriation of funds to implement the provisions of * * the bill. * ************************************************************************** General Revenue-Related Funds, Five-Year Impact: **************************************************** * Fiscal Year Probable Net Positive/(Negative) * * Impact to General Revenue Related * * Funds * * 2000 $(350,000) * * 2001 (12,000,000) * * 2002 (12,000,000) * * 2003 (12,000,000) * * 2004 (12,000,000) * **************************************************** All Funds, Five-Year Impact: ***************************************************** * Fiscal Year Probable Savings/(Cost) from * * General Revenue Fund * * 0001 * * 2000 $(350,000) * * 2001 (12,000,000) * * 2002 (12,000,000) * * 2003 (12,000,000) * * 2004 (12,000,000) * ***************************************************** Fiscal Analysis The bill would create a master reading teacher grant program. The commissioner of education would make grants to school districts and charter schools to pay stipends to selected certified master reading teachers who teach a high-need campuses. High-need campuses would be identified by criteria established in the commissioner's rules, including performance on the TAAS reading test. Although grant would be reduced based on the amounts appropriated, the bill would Also, the State Board for Educator Certification would be required to develop and issue a master reading teacher certificate to each eligible person. Methodology This note estimates that the commissioner will issue grants totaling $12 million each year beginning in fiscal year 2001. Also, the note includes $350,000 in fiscal year 2000 for the development of master reading teacher standards and the master reading teacher exam by the State Board for Educator Certification. Local Government Impact School districts would receive additional state funding for master reading teaching grants, estimated at $12 million per year beginning in the second year of the 2000-01 biennium. Source Agencies: LBB Staff: JK, CT, RN