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

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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

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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.