Bill Text: TX SB719 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to requiring the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to collect, study, and report certain data regarding workforce education programs.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB719 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB719-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 719 |
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relating to requiring the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board | ||
to collect, study, and report certain data regarding workforce | ||
education programs. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 61.0664, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (f), (g), (h), and | ||
(i) to read as follows: | ||
(a) The board shall collect and maintain data relating to: | ||
(1) undergraduate and graduate level participation of | ||
persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities at | ||
institutions of higher education, including data regarding | ||
applications for admission, admissions, retention, graduation, and | ||
professional licensing; and | ||
(2) participation of persons with intellectual and | ||
developmental disabilities enrolled in a workforce education | ||
program, including a workforce continuing education program, that | ||
is eligible for state-appropriated formula funding, including data | ||
regarding retention, graduation, and professional licensing. | ||
(f) The board, in consultation with public junior college | ||
districts, shall identify five junior college districts | ||
representative of each of the public junior college district peer | ||
groups as identified by the board, with two selected from the peer | ||
groups of the largest junior college district, and the geographic | ||
diversity of this state for the purpose of implementing a pilot | ||
program to develop and recommend minimum reporting language for | ||
financial and instructional cost information, including | ||
information relating to instruction of persons with intellectual | ||
and developmental disabilities. In consultation with the | ||
Legislative Budget Board, the junior college districts | ||
participating in the program shall study best practices for the | ||
reporting of revenue and costs allocated across the districts and | ||
the practicability of disaggregating financial and instructional | ||
cost information by instructional site within a junior college | ||
district. Participants in the study shall consider the following | ||
data: | ||
(1) the number of contact hours, including those | ||
generated from distance learning; | ||
(2) student attainment of completion milestones as | ||
measured by a performance funding formula established by the | ||
coordinating board under Section 51.3062(m); | ||
(3) the total amount of state appropriations, tax | ||
revenue, in-district and out-of-district tuition and fee revenue, | ||
or any other revenue received by the junior college districts and | ||
the rates or methods by which those revenues are collected; | ||
(4) the amount of money expended by the junior college | ||
districts for programs related to the participation, retention, and | ||
graduation of persons with intellectual and developmental | ||
disabilities; | ||
(5) a statement of the total amount of money expended | ||
by the junior college districts; | ||
(6) the number of full-time and adjunct faculty; and | ||
(7) any other relevant data or reporting | ||
methodologies. | ||
(g) Not later than June 1, 2018, the board and the | ||
participating junior college districts shall report to the | ||
Legislative Budget Board the findings from the study under | ||
Subsection (f), including best practices in reporting, | ||
methodologies in reporting, and a template for reporting. Each | ||
participating junior college district shall report to the board the | ||
district's financial and instructional costs using the reporting | ||
template not later than: | ||
(1) September 1, 2019, for the state fiscal year | ||
ending August 31, 2019; and | ||
(2) September 1, 2020, for the state fiscal year | ||
ending August 31, 2020. | ||
(h) To the extent of any conflict, Subsections (f) and (g) | ||
prevail over any rider regarding a reporting requirement following | ||
the appropriations to Public Community/Junior Colleges in Senate | ||
Bill No. 1, Acts of the 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017 (the | ||
General Appropriations Act). | ||
(i) This subsection and Subsections (f), (g), and (h) expire | ||
December 31, 2020. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 719 passed the Senate on | ||
April 3, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that | ||
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 27, 2017, by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 719 passed the House, with | ||
amendment, on May 24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 137, | ||
Nays 8, one present not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
______________________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |