LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE, 76th Regular Session
April 14, 1999
TO: Honorable Teel Bivins, Chair, Senate Committee on
Education
FROM: John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE: SB576 by Armbrister (Relating to class size in public
schools), As Introduced
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* Estimated Two-year Net Impact to General Revenue Related Funds for *
* SB576, As Introduced: negative impact of $(437,413) 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. *
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General Revenue-Related Funds, Five-Year Net Impact:
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* Fiscal Year Probable Net Positive/(Negative) *
* Impact to General Revenue Related *
* Funds *
* 2001 $(437,413) *
* 2002 (437,413) *
* 2003 (437,413) *
* 2004 (437,413) *
* 2005 (437,413) *
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All Funds, Five-Year Impact:
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*Fiscal Probable Savings/(Cost) from Change in Number of State *
* Year General Revenue Fund Employees from FY 1999 *
* 0001 *
* 2001 $(437,413) 3.5 *
* 2002 (437,413) 3.5 *
* 2003 (437,413) 3.5 *
* 2004 (437,413) 3.5 *
* 2005 (437,413) 3.5 *
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Fiscal Analysis
This bill would amend Section 25.112 of the Texas Education Code (TEC) to
require each school district to report the number of students enrolled
in each class by grade level, subject, and special program. In
addition, the bill would amend Section 39.052 to require the school
report card (SRC) to include class sizes by grade level, subject, and
special program.
Methodology
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) anticipates that additional contract
costs for outsourced processing time and disk space and other
information systems costs for this volume of data would be estimated at
approximately $250,000 annually. The increased fractional full-time
equivalent (FTE) requirements across a variety of TEA functions with
activities related to data collection, analysis, and reporting would
result in the need for approximately 3.5 FTEs total. Although this need
would be spread across a variety of functions, the FTEs are shown above
as total positions for the purpose of this fiscal note. Total impact on
TEA operations would be estimated to be approximately $437,413 annually.
Local Government Impact
The Texas Education Agency projects that school districts statewide would
experience a cost of approximately $35.4 million per year, beginning in
fiscal year 2001.
Source Agencies: TCE Texas Center for Educational Research, 701
Texas Education Agency - Administration
LBB Staff: JK, CT, RN