LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
 
FISCAL NOTE, 86TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION
 
April 3, 2019

TO:
Honorable Larry Taylor, Chair, Senate Committee on Education
 
FROM:
John McGeady, Assistant Director     Sarah Keyton, Assistant Director
Legislative Budget Board
 
IN RE:
SB2433 by Taylor (Relating to the career and technology education and technology applications allotment and the essential knowledge and skills of the career and technology education and technology applications curriculums.), As Introduced



Estimated Two-year Net Impact to General Revenue Related Funds for SB2433, As Introduced: a negative impact of ($7,043,126) through the biennium ending August 31, 2021.

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
2020 ($109,150)
2021 ($6,933,976)
2022 ($7,861,871)
2023 ($7,825,871)
2024 ($8,938,917)




Fiscal Year Probable Savings/(Cost) from
General Revenue Fund
1
Probable Savings/(Cost) from
Foundation School Fund
193
2020 ($109,150) $0
2021 $0 ($6,933,976)
2022 $0 ($7,861,871)
2023 $0 ($7,825,871)
2024 $0 ($8,938,917)

Fiscal Analysis

The bill would expand the career and technology allotment to include technology applications courses.

The bill would apply beginning with the 2020-21 school year.

Methodology

Based on information provided by the Texas Education Agency (TEA), 12,764 students took technology applications courses in fiscal year 2018. Had these students been eligible to generate weighted funding under the Foundation School Program, they would have generated an estimated 2,060 full-time equivalents (FTEs). TEA reports that growth in technology applications courses had grown by 12 percent per year since 2016, and assumed the same continued growth in the future.

TEA estimates, based on its school finance model, that the additional weighted funding would cost $6.9 million in fiscal year 2021, and would increase to $8.9 million in fiscal year 2024.

The bill would require the State Board of Education to conduct a review of career and technology education and technology applications courses to eliminate any duplicative courses. Based on information provided by TEA, the estimated cost of the review committees to conduct this review would be $109,150 in fiscal year 2020.

Local Government Impact

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


Source Agencies:
701 Texas Education Agency
LBB Staff:
WP, HL, AM, AH