LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                              April 2, 2001
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Paul Sadler, Chair, House Committee on Public
               Education
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  HB75  by Garcia (Relating to public school campus report
               cards.), As Introduced
  
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*  No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.        *
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Local Government Impact
  
School districts would likely incur additional costs associated with
software modifications to accommodate the collection, maintenance and
reporting of the additional data required by this bill.  Costs for
software modification are estimated to be about $2,000 per district on
average or about $2,000,000 statewide.

There may be minor administrative costs associated with collecting data
on those additional indicators that are likely not collected currently by
districts, including the percentage of students whose parent had
personal contact with the student's teacher, the percentage of students
whose parent responded to written or oral communication from school
personnel, and the percentage of graduating students accepted by junior
college or senior college or university.

Including the additional indicators would lengthen the school report
card.  School districts pay the costs of printing these report cards,
and the cost of additional pages is an estimated $.03 per page.
Assuming the addition of two pages, the additional statewide cost to
print a school report card for every student and his or her family would
be approximately $240,000 statewide.
  
  
Source Agencies:   701   Texas Education Agency
LBB Staff:         JK, CT, PF, JM