LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD

Austin, Texas

FISCAL NOTE, 81ST LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION

May 7, 2009

TO:	Honorable Garnet Coleman, Chair, House Committee on County Affairs
FROM:	John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:	HB842 by Martinez, "Mando" (Relating to the authority of certain school districts to lay in county rights-of-way fiber optic cable or other means of transmitting information. ), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted

No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

The bill would amend the Education Code to authorize and provide procedures for school districts within 60 miles of the Texas-Mexico border to place fiber optic cable or another means of transmitting information in a county right-of-way.

Local Government Impact

No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.

Source Agencies:

701 Central Education Agency

LBB Staff:

JOB, DB, JSp