LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 76th Regular Session
  
                              March 3, 1999
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Irma Rangel, Chair, House Committee on Higher
               Education
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  SB345  by Bivins (Relating to the formula funding and
               tuition charged for certain excess credit hours of
               undergraduate students attending institutions of higher
               education), Committee Report 2nd House, as amended
  
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*  No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.        *
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This bill would exclude or "grandfather" students enrolled in a general
academic institution, prior to August 1999 from undergraduate hour caps.
Additional costs to the State would only be incurred for enrollment
growth, but the bill excludes the "grandfathered" hours from enrollment
growth calculations.  The state might realize a small reduction in
tuition income, because general academic institutions would no longer
have the option to charge "grandfathered" students a higher rate of
tuition.
  
Local Government Impact
  
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
  
  
Source Agencies:   
LBB Staff:         JK, CT, DB