LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                              April 9, 2001
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Paul Sadler, Chair, House Committee on Public
               Education
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  HB933  by Solis, Jim (Relating to the inclusion of
               certain students attending magnet schools in other
               districts in the computation of weighted average daily
               attendance of the school district in which the students
               reside.), As Introduced
  
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*  No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.        *
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The bill changes the method for computing weighted average daily
attendance for the purposes of determining the extent to which a district
must reduce property wealth under Chapter 41 of the Texas Education
Code.   The bill would include in the calculation  of a property-wealthy
district's WADA the average daily attendance of students residing in the
property-wealthy district but attending a magnet school in a district
overlapping the boundaries of the property-wealthy district.

The bill would apply to one school district, Point Isabel Independent
School District (ISD), which is a property-wealthy district overlapped by
South Texas ISD, which runs a health careers high school program.

The loss of recapture revenue pursuant to implementation of the
legislation is estimated to be $87,000 in each year of the biennium.
That amount is not considered significant within the Foundation School
Program.
  
Local Government Impact
  
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.
  
  
Source Agencies:   701   Texas Education Agency
LBB Staff:         JK, CT, PF, UP