TO: | Honorable Judith Zaffirini, Chair, Senate Committee on Higher Education |
FROM: | John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | SB1730 by Zaffirini (Relating to requiring the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to create a tool to allow prospective students to compare institutions of higher education by certain criteria.), As Introduced |
Fiscal Year | Probable Net Positive/(Negative) Impact to General Revenue Related Funds |
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2012 | ($66,796) |
2013 | ($8,226) |
2014 | ($8,226) |
2015 | ($8,226) |
2016 | ($8,226) |
Fiscal Year | Probable Savings/(Cost) from General Revenue Fund 1 |
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2012 | ($66,796) |
2013 | ($8,226) |
2014 | ($8,226) |
2015 | ($8,226) |
2016 | ($8,226) |
The Higher Education Coordinating Board has indicated that there would be costs in creating the web portal required in the bill and producing and updating the data available through the online portal. They indicate that they would likely contract for inital development of the online portal at an expense of $40,000 in the first year, with ongoing technological support costs being nominal. They also estimate there would also be administrative costs tied to the production and updating of the data required to be made available through the portal which would require 0.2 of an FTE in the first year and 0.1 in subsequent years. Total costs in fiscal year 2012 would be $66,796 and $8,226 in the following years.
Any costs for the institutions associated with implementing the provisions of the bill would be absorbed within existing resources.
Source Agencies: | 710 Texas A&M University System Administrative and General Offices, 720 The University of Texas System Administration, 758 Texas State University System, 768 Texas Tech University System Administration, 769 University of North Texas System Administration, 781 Higher Education Coordinating Board, 783 University of Houston System Administration
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LBB Staff: | JOB, KK, RT, GO
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