LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                              March 25, 2001
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Paul Sadler, Chair, House Committee on Public
               Education
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  HB6  by Dunnam (Relating to open-enrollment charter
               schools.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
  
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*  No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.        *
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Local Government Impact
  
Under the funding changes in section 12.106 of the bill as substituted,
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:   405   Texas Department of Public Safety, 705   State
                   Board for Educator Certification, 701   Texas
                   Education Agency
LBB Staff:         JK, CT, JM