LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                            February 22, 2001
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Irma Rangel, Chair, House Committee on Higher
               Education
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  HB1130  by Rangel (Relating to the exemption of certain
               educational aides from the payment of tuition and fees at
               institutions of higher education.), Committee Report 1st
               House, Substituted
  
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*  No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.                    *
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The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board estimates that the number
of participants in the program will double from 1,700 to 3,400, if the
bill is passed.  The General Appropriations Bill, as filed, includes a
rider that increases the transfer from the Texas Education Agency to the
Coordinating Board for this and other tuition credit programs.  In the
General Appropriations Bill, as filed, the Coordinating Board strategy
related to the Educational Aide Program is increased from $1 million to
$2 million a year to reflect the increase in the rider transfer.
Therefore it is assumed the resulting increase in costs as a result of
this bill are already provided for in the General Appropriations Bill,
as filed.
  
Local Government Impact
  
School districts may realize additional costs to provide financial
incentives to educational aides.  However, no significant fiscal
implication to units of local government is anticipated.
  
  
Source Agencies:   701   Texas Education Agency
LBB Staff:         JK, CT, DB