LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD Austin, Texas FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session March 30, 2001 TO: Honorable Paul Sadler, Chair, House Committee on Public Education FROM: John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board IN RE: HB1783 by Garcia (Relating to dropout and completion rates in public schools.), As Introduced ************************************************************************** * Estimated Two-year Net Impact to General Revenue Related Funds for * * HB1783, As Introduced: negative impact of $(234,412) through the * * biennium ending August 31, 2003. * * * * The bill would make no appropriation but could provide the legal * * basis for an appropriation of funds to implement the provisions of * * the bill. * ************************************************************************** General Revenue-Related Funds, Five-Year Impact: **************************************************** * Fiscal Year Probable Net Positive/(Negative) * * Impact to General Revenue Related * * Funds * * 2002 $(132,206) * * 2003 (102,206) * * 2004 (102,206) * * 2005 (102,206) * * 2006 (102,206) * **************************************************** All Funds, Five-Year Impact: *************************************************************************** *Fiscal Probable Savings/(Cost) from Change in Number of State * * Year General Revenue Fund Employees from FY 2001 * * 0001 * * 2002 $(132,206) 2.0 * * 2003 (102,206) 2.0 * * 2004 (102,206) 2.0 * * 2005 (102,206) 2.0 * * 2006 (102,206) 2.0 * *************************************************************************** Fiscal Analysis The bill requires the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to do two activities that have fiscal implications: (1) Develop a training program for auditing district dropout records and make the program available to public accountants throughout the state; (2) Review each district's annual audit report and notify the board of trustees of any objections or violations of accounting procedures, state law or rules. Methodology TEA estimates that its audit division would need two full-time employees to implement this bill, at a total salary of $70,320 per year, plus $19,886 per year in benefit costs. The responsibilities of this staff include developing the standards for auditing dropout records and conducting a one week training course for public accountants. For this course there would be an estimated one-time cost of $30,000 in 2002. The agency anticipates that the two full-time employees will need to conduct audits on unusual campus dropout reports or districts with special circumstances. The agency estimates that it would take the two employees two months at the cost of $150 per day per person for travel, for a total of $12,000 annually. Local Government Impact Districts would be required to pay for the annual audit of the dropout records. It is assumed that each audit would average around $1,000 for the approximately 2,550 middle and high school campuses for a state-wide cost of $2,550,000. Source Agencies: 701 Texas Education Agency LBB Staff: JK, CT, PF, JM