LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                              March 8, 2001
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Paul Sadler, Chair, House Committee on Public
               Education
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  HB1145  by Menendez (Relating to courses offered by a
               public junior college for joint high school and junior
               college credit.), As Introduced
  
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*  No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.        *
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At least 25 public community colleges currently provide concurrent
enrollment to private and home school students, generating approximately
80,000 contact hours in Fall 2000 at a cost to general revenue of about
$300,000.

Enactment of this bill, legalizing current practice, should result in an
increase in students and contact hours at institutions currently engaged
in this practice, and at those institutions that limit concurrent
enrollment. to public school students.

The increase in enrollment, contact hours, and general revenue
expenditures should not be significant.
  
Local Government Impact
  
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.

Community college districts would realize tuition and fee revenues and
general revenue contact hour formula funding for the contact hours
generated by the additional enrollment effected by this provision.
  
  
Source Agencies:   781   Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, 701
                   Texas Education Agency
LBB Staff:         JK, CT, PF, DB, KC