TO: | Honorable Rob Eissler, Chair, House Committee on Public Education |
FROM: | John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | HB562 by Berman (Relating to the development of juvenile justice alternative education programs in counties with a population greater than 125,000.), As Introduced |
Fiscal Year | Probable Net Positive/(Negative) Impact to General Revenue Related Funds |
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2012 | $929,728 |
2013 | $929,728 |
2014 | $929,728 |
2015 | $929,728 |
2016 | $929,728 |
Fiscal Year | Probable Savings/(Cost) from Foundation School Fund 193 |
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2012 | $929,728 |
2013 | $929,728 |
2014 | $929,728 |
2015 | $929,728 |
2016 | $929,728 |
The Texas Juvenile Probation Commission (TJPC) estimates that six of the twenty-six counties currently required by law to operate a JJAEP would opt out of operating a JJAEP. The Texas Education Agency (TEA) transfers $79 per student per day of attendance at a JJAEP to TJPC for students placed in a JJAEP on a mandatory basis. Based on the number of mandatory attendance days in the 2009-10 school year in JJAEPs in the six counties identified by TJPC as likely to opt out of operations under the provisions of the bill, it is assumed that the bill would result in 29,054 fewer mandatory attendance days per year beginning in fiscal year 2012. At the state reimbursement rate of $79 per day, this would result in an annual reduction in funds transferred from TEA to TJPC of $2.3 million in General Revenue annually.
It is assumed that students no longer being served in the affected JJAEPs through a mandatory placement would be served in their home school district and would generate state funding through the Foundation School Program (FSP). Assuming an average cost to the FSP per attendance day in a public school district, it is estimated that the provisions of the bill would result in an annual FSP cost of $1.4 million in General Revenue annually, for a minimum net savings of $0.9 million annually.
To the extent that school districts expel students who would have otherwise been served in a JJAEP on a mandatory basis and do not provide ongoing educational services, savings would increase to a maximum of $2.3 million annually based on the assumptions referenced above.
Source Agencies: | 665 Juvenile Probation Commission, 701 Central Education Agency
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LBB Staff: | JOB, LXH, JGM, JSc, MWU
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