Honorable Harold V. Dutton, Jr., Chair, House Committee on Juvenile Justice & Family Issues
FROM:
Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:
HB1732 by Giddings (Relating to requiring a school district or open-enrollment charter school to report data regarding restraints administered to, complaints filed against, citations issued to, and arrests made of students.), As Introduced
Estimated Two-year Net Impact to General Revenue Related Funds for HB1732, As Introduced: a negative impact of ($403,430) through the biennium ending August 31, 2019.
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
2018
($201,715)
2019
($201,715)
2020
$0
2021
$0
2022
$0
Fiscal Year
Probable Savings/(Cost) from General Revenue Fund 1
2018
($201,715)
2019
($201,715)
2020
$0
2021
$0
2022
$0
Fiscal Analysis
The bill would amend the Education Code to add reporting requirements for school districts and open-enrollment charter schools related to student restraints, complaints, citations, and arrests. The bill would require school districts to electronically submit to the Texas Education Agency (TEA) an annual report that contains certain incident-based data, and revise agreements with local law enforcement agencies to delineate responsibilities related to data collection. The bill would require TEA to collect the reports, compile the data, and make the data available to the public.
The bill would take effect immediately if passed within the necessary voting margins, or September 1, 2017, and would apply beginning with school year 2017-18.
Methodology
Implementing the requirements of the bill would result in costs associated with the operation of TEA totaling $201,715 in fiscal year 2018 and $201,715 in fiscal year 2019.
The bill would require 11 different attributes to be reported for each of the four categories of data reported to TEA. TEA indicated that it would be required to add a new collection table and add 44 new data elements to the Texas Student Data System (TSDS) Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) in order to capture the data that is required to be reported.
To implement the provisions of the bill, TEA indicated that it would incur costs for professional fees to develop the changes to TSDS. The estimated cost of the professional fees would be $201,715 in fiscal year 2018 and $201,715 in fiscal year 2019. This analysis assumes TEA can maintain TSDS PEIMS with existing resources.
Technology
To implement the provisions of the bill, TEA would make various modifications to the TSDS PEIMS. TEA would add 44 new data elements (4 categories x 11 elements) in a new collection format.
Local Government Impact
School districts and open-enrollment charter schools may incur costs to comply with the data collection and reporting requirements of the bill, including potential costs to employ additional legal counsel, data staff, and /or administrative staff. Costs would vary depending on the size of the school district and current practices.