LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD Austin, Texas FISCAL NOTE, 82ND LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION May 23, 2011 TO: Honorable Judith Zaffirini, Chair, Senate Committee on Higher Education FROM: John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board IN RE:HB1206 by Guillen (relating to training for members of governing boards of public junior college districts.), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated. The bill would implement a recommendation in the report, "Strengthen Financial Oversight of Community Colleges" in the Legislative Budget Board's Government Effectiveness and Efficiency Report submitted to the Eighty-second Texas Legislature, 2011. The bill would require all new members of governing boards of public junior college districts to attend training within their first two years of service instead of allowing training to be optional. The Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) would be required to include information about best practices in campus financial management, financial analysis, and case studies using financial indicators to the content of instruction for the training program currently required by this Act. The THECB would also be required to provide an equivalent training program by electronic means in the event a governing board member is unable to attend the required training program. The bill would also require a governing board of a public junior college district to include whether each board member has completed any required training under this section, as of the meeting date, in the minutes of the last regular governing board meeting held during a calendar year. Local Government Impact No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated. Source Agencies:781 Higher Education Coordinating Board LBB Staff: JOB, KK, JI, SDE
LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE, 82ND LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION
May 23, 2011
TO: Honorable Judith Zaffirini, Chair, Senate Committee on Higher Education FROM: John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board IN RE:HB1206 by Guillen (relating to training for members of governing boards of public junior college districts.), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted
TO: Honorable Judith Zaffirini, Chair, Senate Committee on Higher Education
FROM: John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE: HB1206 by Guillen (relating to training for members of governing boards of public junior college districts.), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted
Honorable Judith Zaffirini, Chair, Senate Committee on Higher Education
Honorable Judith Zaffirini, Chair, Senate Committee on Higher Education
John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board
John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board
HB1206 by Guillen (relating to training for members of governing boards of public junior college districts.), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted
HB1206 by Guillen (relating to training for members of governing boards of public junior college districts.), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
The bill would implement a recommendation in the report, "Strengthen Financial Oversight of Community Colleges" in the Legislative Budget Board's Government Effectiveness and Efficiency Report submitted to the Eighty-second Texas Legislature, 2011. The bill would require all new members of governing boards of public junior college districts to attend training within their first two years of service instead of allowing training to be optional. The Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) would be required to include information about best practices in campus financial management, financial analysis, and case studies using financial indicators to the content of instruction for the training program currently required by this Act. The THECB would also be required to provide an equivalent training program by electronic means in the event a governing board member is unable to attend the required training program. The bill would also require a governing board of a public junior college district to include whether each board member has completed any required training under this section, as of the meeting date, in the minutes of the last regular governing board meeting held during a calendar year.
The bill would implement a recommendation in the report, "Strengthen Financial Oversight of Community Colleges" in the Legislative Budget Board's Government Effectiveness and Efficiency Report submitted to the Eighty-second Texas Legislature, 2011.
The bill would require all new members of governing boards of public junior college districts to attend training within their first two years of service instead of allowing training to be optional. The Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) would be required to include information about best practices in campus financial management, financial analysis, and case studies using financial indicators to the content of instruction for the training program currently required by this Act. The THECB would also be required to provide an equivalent training program by electronic means in the event a governing board member is unable to attend the required training program.
The bill would also require a governing board of a public junior college district to include whether each board member has completed any required training under this section, as of the meeting date, in the minutes of the last regular governing board meeting held during a calendar year.
Local Government Impact
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
Source Agencies: 781 Higher Education Coordinating Board
781 Higher Education Coordinating Board
LBB Staff: JOB, KK, JI, SDE
JOB, KK, JI, SDE