83R1629 KSD-D
By: Branch H.B. No. 25
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's student
success-based funding recommendations for certain public
institutions of higher education.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 61.0593(e), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(e) Notwithstanding Subsection (d):
(1) not more than 25 [10] percent of the total amount
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 student success measures does not
reduce or otherwise affect funding recommendations for graduate
education.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2013.