Bill Text: TX HB25 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to success-based funding for certain public institutions of higher education.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-09 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB25 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB25-Comm_Sub.html

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83R23224 KSD-D
By: Branch, et al. H.B. No. 25
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 25:
By: Branch C.S.H.B. No. 25

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to success-based funding for certain public institutions
of higher education.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 61.0593(e), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(e) Notwithstanding Subsection (d),[:
[(1) not more than 10 percent of the total amount of
general revenue appropriations of base funds for undergraduate
education recommended by the board for all institutions to which
Subsection (d) applies for a state fiscal biennium may be based on
student success measures; and
[(2)] the board's recommendation for base funding for
undergraduate education based on student success measures does not
reduce or otherwise affect funding recommendations for graduate
education.
SECTION 2. Chapter 322, Government Code, is amended by
adding Section 322.0082 to read as follows:
Sec. 322.0082. STUDENT SUCCESS-BASED FUNDING FOR CERTAIN
INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION. (a) In this section, "general
academic teaching institution" and "public state college" have the
meanings assigned by Section 61.003, Education Code.
(b) In the general appropriations bill prepared for
introduction to the legislature under Section 322.008, at least 25
percent of the total amount of general revenue appropriations of
base funds for undergraduate education for all general academic
teaching institutions, other than public state colleges, for a
state fiscal biennium must be based on student success measures
described by Section 61.0593(d), Education Code.
(b-1) Subsection (b) does not apply to a state fiscal
biennium before the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2019.
In the general appropriations bill prepared for introduction to the
legislature under Section 322.008 for the state fiscal biennium
ending August 31, 2017, at least 15 percent of the total amount of
general revenue appropriations of base funds for undergraduate
education for all general academic teaching institutions, other
than public state colleges, for that state fiscal biennium must be
based on student success measures described by Section 61.0593(d),
Education Code. This subsection expires September 1, 2017.
(c) In preparing the general appropriations bill to comply
with the requirements of this section, the director, under the
direction of the board, shall consider the Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board's recommendations under Section 61.0593(d),
Education Code.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.