Honorable Jimmie Don Aycock, Chair, House Committee on Public Education
FROM:
Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:
HB904 by González, Mary (Relating to a requirement for school districts to report class size to the Texas Education Agency.), As Introduced
Estimated Two-year Net Impact to General Revenue Related Funds for HB904, As Introduced: a negative impact of ($700,000) through the biennium ending August 31, 2015.
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
2014
($500,000)
2015
($200,000)
2016
($200,000)
2017
($200,000)
2018
($200,000)
Fiscal Year
Probable Savings/(Cost) from General Revenue Fund 1
2014
($500,000)
2015
($200,000)
2016
($200,000)
2017
($200,000)
2018
($200,000)
Fiscal Analysis
The bill would require a school district to report to the Texas Education Agency (TEA) the number of students enrolled as of September 1 in each class of each grade level from kindergarten through grade 12 in the district no later than October 1 of each school year.
Methodology
Student enrollment data is currently collected in the fourth Friday of October. Based on information provided by the TEA, the estimated cost to modify the Public Education Information Management System and the Texas Student Data System to add new data collection elements to comply with the provisions of the bill would be $500,000 in fiscal year 2014 and $200,000 in subsequent years.
Local Government Impact
School districts would be required to update their local student information systems and to report the required data by October 1 of each school year, although these costs would vary between districts.