LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 76th Regular Session
  
                              March 2, 1999
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Teel Bivins, Chair, Senate Committee on
               Education
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  SB636  by Bivins (Relating to concurrent enrollment
               agreements between junior colleges and private high
               schools.), As Introduced
  
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*  No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.        *
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*  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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This bill would allow students at private high schools to concurrently
enroll at public, community colleges on the same basis as students at
public high schools.  This would generate contact hour funding for the
community colleges, but the number of students expected to participate
is less than 100 which equates to only 20 full time student equivalents.
The amount of additional general revenue ($48,000) generated by these
contact hours does  not represent a significant impact to the state.
  
Local Government Impact
  
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.
  
  
Source Agencies:   
LBB Staff:         JK, CT, DB