LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 76th Regular Session
  
                              March 3, 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), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
  
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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 accredited,  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