Bill Text: TX SB2338 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to student success-based funding for certain public institutions of higher education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-08 - Filed [SB2338 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2338-Introduced.html
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By: Bettencourt | S.B. No. 2338 |
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relating to student 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, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (d), (e), and (h) and adding Subsections | ||
(d-1), (d-2), (d-3), (d-4), and (d-5) to read as follows: | ||
(d) This subsection applies only to a general academic | ||
teaching institution other than a public state college. In | ||
devising its funding formulas and making its recommendations to the | ||
legislature relating to institutional appropriations of funds | ||
under Section 61.059 for institutions to which this subsection | ||
applies, the board, [ |
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institutions, shall prescribe a formula for distributing funds to | ||
the institutions in proportion to the number of scaled points | ||
earned by each of the institutions according to the following | ||
performance metrics [ |
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(1) the total number of undergraduate [ |
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degrees awarded by the institution; | ||
(2) the total number of undergraduate [ |
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by the institution's: | ||
(A) six-year graduation rate; or | ||
(B) three-year graduation rate, if the | ||
institution offers only upper-division courses; | ||
(3) the total number of undergraduate [ |
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degrees awarded by the institution divided by the number of | ||
full-time undergraduate student equivalents enrolled in the fall | ||
semester, as reported in the board's higher education | ||
accountability system, the quotient of which is multiplied by 100 | ||
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(4) the six-year graduation rate, or three-year | ||
graduation rate if the institution offers only upper-division | ||
courses, of at-risk students; | ||
(5) retention rates of undergraduate students at the | ||
institution having successfully completed at least 25 percent of | ||
the student's degree requirements or having earned at least 30 | ||
credit hours toward a 120-credit-hour degree, including hours | ||
earned toward the degree at another institution before transferring | ||
to the institution; | ||
(6) retention rates of undergraduate students at the | ||
institution having successfully completed at least 50 percent of | ||
the student's degree requirements or having earned at least 60 | ||
credit hours toward a 120-credit-hour degree, including hours | ||
earned toward the degree at another institution before transferring | ||
to the institution; and | ||
(7) retention rates of undergraduate students at the | ||
institution having successfully completed at least 75 percent of | ||
the student's degree requirements or having earned at least 90 | ||
credit hours toward a 120-credit-hour degree, including hours | ||
earned toward the degree at another institution before transferring | ||
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(d-1) In devising the formula under Subsection (d), the | ||
board shall: | ||
(1) determine the appropriate scale for each metric; | ||
and | ||
(2) compute each metric using the average of the | ||
applicable variables for the three most recent academic years for | ||
which the information is available, as determined on the January 1 | ||
preceding the state fiscal biennium for which the metric is | ||
computed. | ||
(d-2) In the formula prescribed under Subsection (d), | ||
points may be assigned only for an institution's outcome on a metric | ||
and not based on the institution's increase in performance on the | ||
metric. | ||
(d-3) In computing an institution's graduation rate under | ||
Subsection (d), the board shall include each first-time, full-time, | ||
undergraduate degree-seeking student who enrolled in at least 12 | ||
semester credit hours in the student's first fall semester at the | ||
institution and who graduated from the institution or from any | ||
other institution of higher education or private or independent | ||
institution of higher education. | ||
(d-4) The board's recommendations under Subsection (d) must | ||
provide alternative approaches for applying the performance | ||
metrics described by that subsection and must compare the effects | ||
on funding of applying the performance metrics within the formula | ||
for base funding to applying the performance metrics as a separate | ||
formula. | ||
(d-5) At the time the board makes its recommendations under | ||
Subsection (d) for institutions to which that subsection applies, | ||
the board shall also make recommendations for incorporating the | ||
performance metrics described by that subsection, to the extent the | ||
board considers appropriate in consultation with those | ||
institutions, into the distribution of any incentive funds | ||
available for those institutions, including performance incentive | ||
funds under Subchapter D, Chapter 62. | ||
(e) Notwithstanding Subsection (d): | ||
(1) not more than 20 [ |
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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 performance metrics [ |
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recommendations for graduate education. | ||
(h) The board shall include in its findings and | ||
recommendations to the legislature under Section 61.059: | ||
(1) an evaluation of the effectiveness of the | ||
performance metrics and student success measures described by this | ||
section in achieving the purpose of this section during the | ||
preceding state fiscal biennium; and | ||
(2) any related recommendations the board considers | ||
appropriate. | ||
SECTION 2. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board | ||
shall adopt rules for the administration of Section 61.0593, | ||
Education Code, as amended by this Act, not later than May 1, 2020. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |