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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T
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ORIGINAL DATE
LAST UPDATED
1/23/2007
HB 65
SHORT TITLE Rural Area Child Literacy Program
SB
ANALYST Aguilar
APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)
Appropriation
Recurring
or Non-Rec
Fund
Affected
FY07
FY08
$1,500.0 Nonrecurring
General Fund
(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
Relates to an appropriation in the General Appropriations Act
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
LFC Files
Responses Received From
Public Education Department (PED)
SUMMARY
Synopsis of Bill
House Bill 65 appropriates $1.5 million from the general fund to the public education department
to provide integrated in-school, after-school and summer supplementary literacy programs for
children in rural areas.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
The appropriation of $1.5 million contained in this bill is a non-recurring expense to the general
fund. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2009 shall
revert to the general fund.
Appropriations contained in this bill provide funding for a rural literacy program at a minimum
of fifteen school sites where these types of programs have been previously implemented. PED
notes these sites are currently being served by a program run by Save the Children under funding
received as part of the Indian Education Act appropriation in FY07.