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.
Sponsorship: 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| 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 | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
