Bill Text: TX HB3296 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub


Bill Title: Relating to reporting requirements regarding certain data related to students at two-year public institutions of higher education.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-11 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB3296 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3296-Comm_Sub.html
  88R20302 MM-D
 
  By: Raney H.B. No. 3296
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3296:
 
  By:  Kuempel C.S.H.B. No. 3296
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to reporting requirements regarding certain data related
  to students at two-year public institutions of higher education.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 2308A, Government Code, is amended by
  adding Section 2308A.0091 to read as follows:
         Sec. 2308A.0091.  ANNUAL REPORT REGARDING TWO-YEAR
  INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION EMPLOYMENT AND WAGE OUTCOMES. (a)
  In this section:
               (1)  "Average first-year wages" means the average
  annual wages earned by a yearly cohort's graduates and leavers
  during the first calendar year following the calendar year in which
  those persons graduated from or were last enrolled in the
  applicable two-year institution of higher education.
               (2)  "Graduate" means a person who:
                     (A)  has been awarded a degree or certificate from
  a two-year institution of higher education; and
                     (B)  is not determined by the coordinating board
  for purposes of this section to be enrolled in another institution
  of higher education.
               (3)  "Leaver" means a student who:
                     (A)  has completed at least nine semester credit
  hours or the equivalent at a two-year institution of higher
  education;
                     (B)  is no longer enrolled at the institution but
  did not graduate; and 
                     (C)  is not determined by the coordinating board
  for purposes of this section to be enrolled in another institution
  of higher education.
               (4)  "Placement rate" in regard to a yearly cohort
  means the proportion of the yearly cohort's graduates and leavers
  determined by the coordinating board to be working in this state
  during the first calendar year following the calendar year in which
  the yearly cohort's members graduated from or were last enrolled in
  the applicable two-year institution of higher education, expressed
  as a percentage.
               (5)  "Transfer rate" in regard to an institution's
  yearly cohort means the proportion of the yearly cohort's members
  who are no longer enrolled in the institution but did not graduate
  and are determined by the coordinating board for purposes of this
  section to be enrolled in another institution of higher education.
               (6)  "Two-year institution of higher education" has the
  meaning assigned by Section 54.751, Education Code.
               (7)  "Yearly cohort" means a cohort of students from a
  two-year institution of higher education that includes, for a
  calendar year, each: 
                     (A)  graduate who graduated from the institution
  during that calendar year; 
                     (B)  leaver who last enrolled in the institution
  during that calendar year; and
                     (C)  student who last enrolled in the institution
  during that calendar year but did not graduate and is determined by
  the coordinating board for purposes of this section to be enrolled
  in another institution of higher education.
         (b)  Not later than March 31 of each calendar year, the
  coordinating board shall:
               (1)  determine, in consultation with the commission,
  the most recent calendar year for which the entire calendar year's
  unemployment insurance wage record data may be obtained from the
  commission;
               (2)  obtain from the commission the unemployment
  insurance wage record data for the calendar year identified in
  Subdivision (1);
               (3)  collate the unemployment insurance wage record
  data obtained under Subdivision (2) using the social security
  numbers for graduates and leavers in each two-year institution of
  higher education's yearly cohort for the calendar year immediately
  preceding the calendar year for which the unemployment insurance
  wage record data was obtained;
               (4)  use the unemployment insurance wage record data
  collated under Subdivision (3) to determine the average first-year
  wages and placement rate for each yearly cohort described by
  Subdivision (3); and
               (5)  using enrollment data from all institutions of
  higher education, determine the transfer rate for each yearly
  cohort described by Subdivision (3).
         (c)  Not later than the first Monday of April of each year,
  the coordinating board shall submit a report to each member of the
  legislature, the lieutenant governor, the governor, the
  comptroller, and the chief executive officer of each two-year
  institution of higher education. The report must contain the most
  recently available average first-year wages, placement rate, and
  transfer rate of each two-year institution of higher education, as
  determined by the coordinating board under Subsection (b).
         (d)  The coordinating board shall:
               (1)  maintain copies of each report submitted under
  Subsection (c) in a manner that is accessible for public
  inspection; and 
               (2)  on the person's request, provide a copy of a report
  maintained under Subdivision (1) to a member of the legislature,
  the lieutenant governor, the governor, the comptroller, or the
  chief executive officer of a two-year institution of higher
  education.
         (e)  The coordinating board may adopt rules as necessary for
  the administration of this section.
         SECTION 2.  Section 130.0035(b), Education Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (b)  The report must include the following information for
  the junior college district for the academic year covered by the
  report:
               (1)  the rate at which students completed courses
  attempted;
               (2)  the number and types of degrees and certificates
  awarded;
               (3)  the percentage of graduates who passed licensing
  exams related to the degree or certificate awarded, to the extent
  the information can be determined;
               (4)  the number of students or graduates who transfer
  to or are admitted to a public university;
               (5)  the passing rates for students required to be
  tested under former Section 51.306;
               (6)  the percentage of students enrolled who are
  academically disadvantaged;
               (7)  the percentage of students enrolled who are
  economically disadvantaged;
               (8)  the racial and ethnic composition of the
  district's student body; [and]
               (9)  the percentage of student contact hours taught by
  full-time faculty; and 
               (10)  the most recent average first-year wages,
  placement rate, and transfer rate for the district's students
  reported by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board in the
  coordinating board's most recent report under Section 2308A.0091,
  Government Code.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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