LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                             January 30, 2001
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Teel Bivins, Chair, Senate Committee on
               Education
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  SB350  by Truan (Relating to wage rates paid by or on
               behalf of certain school districts on public works
               projects.), As Introduced
  
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*  No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.                    *
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Local Government Impact
  
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.

The bill authorizes, but would not require, school districts located
primarily in a county within 50 miles of an international border to
require that contractors and subcontractors building public works for
said districts pay their employees a "living wage."  Only those
districts choosing to do so might experience greater construction costs
as a result.
  
  
Source Agencies:   701   Texas Education Agency
LBB Staff:         JK, CT, PF, JM