LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 1, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Teel Bivins, Chair            IN RE:  Senate Bill No. 1419
          Committee on Education                              By: West, Royce
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on SB1419 ( Relating 
to certain admissions and reporting procedures for certain institutions 
of higher education.) this office has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by SB1419-As Introduced
         
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated. 
 
         
The bill would make no appropriation but could provide the legal 
basis for an appropriation of funds to implement the provisions 
of the bill.
         
 
Similar annual fiscal implications would continue as long as 
the provisions of the bill are in effect.

The bill would 
establish categories for undergraduate admissions for general 
academic institutions.  The bill would require that up to 50 
percent of offers of admission be based on applicants' class 
standings and standardized test scores; at least 40 percent 
be based on class standing and 10 equally weighted economic 
or educational factors; and up to 10 percent be based on other 
factors which may include a personal interviews.  The bill would 
be effective for admissions for the 1998 fall semester.  

The 
bill would require the Coordinating Board to establish reporting 
requirements of race, gender, and economic and educational factors 
of both applicants and those admitted.  The bill would require 
institutions to evaluate students and establish programs of 
enrichment and retention.  Institutions would also be required 
to develop programs to expand outreach efforts in middle schools 
and high schools.

There could be some costs associated with 
the increased reporting requirements to be established by the 
Coordinating Board, but there would not be a significant fiscal 
impact.  Because institutions already have programs related 
to enrichment, retention, and outreach efforts, there would 
be no fiscal impact for that provision.
          
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
          
   Source:            Agencies:   781   Higher Education Coordinating Board
                                         
                      LBB Staff:   JK ,LP ,LD