LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                              March 23, 2001
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Teel Bivins, Chair, Senate Committee on
               Education
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  SB596  by Duncan (Relating to prekindergarten programs
               for public school students.), Committee Report 1st House,
               Substituted
  
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*  No significant 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.

No new actions would be required of school districts.  Districts would be
given the authority to establish additional half and full-day
tuition-supported prekindergarten programs for students who are eligible
for current half-day prekindergarten programs and for children who do not
qualify for prekindergarten programs under current law.  Districts would
be authorized to charge tuition at a rate limited to an amount needed to
cover the costs of providing the tuition-supported program.  Districts
would be required to report demographic information on students enrolled
in eligibility-restricted prekindergarten programs as well as the numbers
of half and full-day prekindergarten classes offered by the district and
the sources of funding for prekindergarten classes.
  
  
Source Agencies:   
LBB Staff:         JK, CT