Bill Text: TX HB2975 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring public junior colleges to report certain financial and instructional information for certain instructional locations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-08 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB2975 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2975-Introduced.html
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By: Raney | H.B. No. 2975 |
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relating to requiring public junior colleges to report certain | ||
financial and instructional information for certain instructional | ||
locations. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. This Act shall be known as The Junior College | ||
Funding and Reporting Transparency Act. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 130, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 130.0037 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 130.0037. INSTRUCTIONAL SITE REPORTING REQUIREMENT. | ||
(a) In this section, "instructional site" means a facility located | ||
within the service area of a junior college district, other than the | ||
main campus of the district, at which the district enrolls 2,000 | ||
students or more in an academic year. | ||
(b) Not later than December 1 of each fiscal year, each | ||
junior college district shall submit a report to the Legislative | ||
Budget Board that includes the following information for each | ||
instructional site of the junior college district: | ||
(1) the number of contact hours, including those | ||
generated from distance learning, for the preceding academic year; | ||
(2) student attainment of completion milestones for | ||
the preceding academic year as measured by a performance funding | ||
formula established by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating | ||
Board under Section 51.3062(m); | ||
(3) the total amount of state appropriations, tax | ||
revenue, and tuition and fee revenue received by the junior college | ||
district in the preceding fiscal year generated by student | ||
enrollment at the instructional site with an indication of the | ||
following: | ||
(A) in-district and out-of-district tuition and | ||
fee revenue amounts; and | ||
(B) if applicable, tuition and fee revenue | ||
amounts collected for dual credit courses; | ||
(4) an itemized statement of the total amount of money | ||
expended on the instructional site in the preceding fiscal year by | ||
the junior college district; and | ||
(5) the number of full-time and adjunct faculty at the | ||
instructional site for the preceding academic year as determined by | ||
the location of the faculty member's primary office. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |