LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD Austin, Texas FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session May 18, 2001 TO: Honorable James E. "Pete" Laney, Speaker of the House, House of Representatives FROM: John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board IN RE: HB3313 by Dunnam (Relating to elementary class size limits in public schools.), As Passed 2nd House ************************************************************************** * No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated. * ************************************************************************** Local Government Impact Districts that do not meet either the bill's fast growth criteria or small district criteria would be required to comply with class size limitations after second consecutive semester waiver for any one campus. Districts would be required to provide communication to parents of students covered by class size waivers. It is presumed for purposes of this fiscal note that this communication could be included with other regular communications so long as it done no later than 31 days after the waiver is granted. For the spring semester of the 2000-2001 school year about 192 campuses in 20 districts received their third consecutive class size waiver and would not have been exempt due to fast growth or small district size. Of the 192 campuses, 154 are located in Houston ISD. For the purpose of this estimate it is assumed that if these 192 campuses had been ineligible for the third consecutive waiver, the affected districts would have had to hire one additional teacher per affected campus and purchase one portable classroom per affected campus. At an average salary of $37,600 and portable classroom cost of $50,000 the annualized statewide cost associated with the limitation on consecutive class size waivers would be about $16.8 million. Source Agencies: 701 Texas Education Agency LBB Staff: JK, CT, PF, RN