LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                              April 24, 2001
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Paul Sadler, Chair, House Committee on Public
               Education
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  HB3253  by Giddings (Relating to the collection of
               certain student information by a school district or
               open-enrollment charter school.), As Introduced
  
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*  No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.        *
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The bill requires the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to collect data on
high school students for institutions of higher education to use in
recruiting potential students.  Name, address, grade point average,
curriculum status and other information would be collected as directory
information subject to parental release authorization.  The directory
information collected by TEA would be sold to institutions of higher
education on a cost-recovery basis.
  
Technology Impact
  

  
  
Local Government Impact
  
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.

TEA staff believe that districts currently collect and maintain student
address information and other information that would be collected and
reported under this bill.  Assuming these data are already collected and
maintained locally, significant costs are not anticipated for data
extraction and reporting to the state.
  
  
Source Agencies:   781   Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, 701
                   Texas Education Agency
LBB Staff:         JK, CT, RN