LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
 
FISCAL NOTE, 78TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION
 
April 28, 2003

TO:
Honorable Kent Grusendorf, Chair, House Committee on Public Education
 
FROM:
John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
 
IN RE:
HB2221 by Pickett (Relating to school district trustee training.), As Introduced



Estimated Two-year Net Impact to General Revenue Related Funds for HB2221, As Introduced: a negative impact of ($750,000) through the biennium ending August 31, 2005.

The bill would make no appropriation but could provide the legal basis for an appropriation of funds to implement the provisions of the bill.



Fiscal Year Probable Net Positive/(Negative) Impact to General Revenue Related Funds
2004 ($500,000)
2005 ($250,000)
2006 ($250,000)
2007 ($250,000)
2008 ($250,000)




Fiscal Year Probable (Cost) from
GENERAL REVENUE FUND
1
2004 ($500,000)
2005 ($250,000)
2006 ($250,000)
2007 ($250,000)
2008 ($250,000)

Fiscal Analysis

The bill would require regional education service centers (ESC's) to report and publish annually a list of local school board members that have not completed training required by the State Board of Education.  The bill would require that the list be published in a periodical or newspaper of general circulation in the community of each listed trustee during the anniversary week of the trustee election in the school district of the trustee.  The list would be required to indicate the number of hours of training required and the number of hours of training completed.

Costs to the ESC's would be for personnel to provide database development and maintenance and personnel to track trustees by anniversary week and arrange for publication to occur within that window in the affected community.  The data would have to be kept up to date on a real-time basis in order to comply with the requirement to publish hours required and hours completed on each trustee’s anniversary date.


Methodology

Costs for one-half time employee per ESC to develop and implement the system plus publications costs would be estimated to total about $500,000 in fiscal year 2004.  Subsequent costs estimated at one-quarter employee per ESC for database maintenance, publication, and reporting functions plus actual publications costs would be estimated at about $250,000 annually. It is assumed that increases in costs for ESCs would be recovered from General Revenue and not from school districts.

Local Government Impact

No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.


Source Agencies:
701 Central Education Agency
LBB Staff:
JK, CT, UP, PQ