LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                               May 26, 2001
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Bill Ratliff, Lieutenant Governor
               Honorable James E. "Pete" Laney, Speaker of the House
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  HB6  by Dunnam (Relating to open-enrollment charter
               schools.), Conference Committee Report
  
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*  No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.        *
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Local Government Impact
  
Under the funding changes contained in the state funding provisions of
the bill, there could be significant variance among individual charter
schools in the amounts to be paid and in the gains or losses of funding
under this legislation.

There may be some increase in the cost of operating charter schools that
comply with the provisions of this bill, but those increases would vary
from school to school.  No single provision has a clear and definitive
cost implication to all charter schools.
  
  
Source Agencies:   
LBB Staff:         JK, CT, JM