LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD

Austin, Texas

FISCAL NOTE, 78TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION

April 4, 2003

TO:	Honorable Carlos Uresti, Chair, House Committee on Human Services
FROM:	John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:	HB1017 by Villarreal (Relating to subsidized child-care services. ), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted

No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

Based on the analysis of the Texas Workforce Commission, the Department of Protective and Regulatory Services, the Texas Education Agency, and the Health and Human Services Commission, duties and responsibilities associated with implementing provisions of the bill could be accomplished by utilizing existing resources.

Local Government Impact

The bill would impose extensive coordination requirements upon school districts that provide prekindergarten programs.  Section 5 of the bill as substituted would also require that a prior to establishing a new prekindergarten program, a school district investigate the possibility of sharing sites with existing Head Start or other child-care programs and obtaining before and after-school care for children attending prekindergarten.

 

It is estimated that the mandatory and discretionary coordination efforts under Section 2 of this bill would require an average of at least 10 hours per campus offering prekindergarten services statewide per year.  Assuming that an administrator at least at the level of an assistant principal would likely be the person charged with the mandatory coordination efforts, the cost statewide beginning in 2003-04 to comply would be approximately $700,000.

Source Agencies:	320 Texas Workforce Commission, 529 Health and Human Services Commission, 530 Department of Protective and Regulatory Services, 701 Central Education Agency
LBB Staff:	JK, JO, EB, RT, JC, KG