LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                              April 2, 2001
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Paul Sadler, Chair, House Committee on Public
               Education
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  HB3313  by Dunnam (Relating to elementary class size
               limits in public schools.), As Introduced
  
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*  No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.        *
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Local Government Impact
  
The Commissioner of Education would not be allowed to grant a class size
waiver to any campus for more than two consecutive semesters.

Districts would be required to provide communication to parents of
students covered by class size waivers.   This communication could be
included with other regular communications, so long as it done no later
than 31 days after the waiver is granted.

During the 2000-01 school year, 254 campuses would have been ineligible
for a class size waiver.  In order to comply,  if these campuses hired
one additional teacher, at an average salary of $37,600 and purchased
one portable classroom at a cost of $50,000 for each campus, the
statewide cost of meeting the requirements of this bill would have been
$22.3 million.
  
  
Source Agencies:   701   Texas Education Agency
LBB Staff:         JK, CT, RN