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1	1	85R22993 KSD-D
2	2	By: Giddings, Johnson of Harris H.B. No. 1241
3	3	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1241:
4	4	By: Lozano C.S.H.B. No. 1241
5	5
6	6
7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to student success-based funding recommendations for
10	10	certain public institutions of higher education.
11	11	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	12	SECTION 1. Section 61.0593(a), Education Code, is amended
13	13	to read as follows:
14	14	(a) The legislature finds that it is in the state's highest
15	15	public interest to evaluate student achievement at institutions of
16	16	higher education and to develop higher education funding policy
17	17	based on that evaluation. Funding policies that promote
18	18	postsecondary educational success based on objective indicators of
19	19	relative performance, such as the number of degrees awarded [degree
20	20	completion rates], are critical to maintaining the state's
21	21	competitiveness in the national and global economy and supporting
22	22	the general welfare of this state. Therefore, the purpose of this
23	23	section is to ensure that institutions of higher education produce
24	24	student outcomes that are directly aligned with the state's
25	25	education goals and economic development needs.
26	26	SECTION 2. Section 61.0593(b)(1), Education Code, is
27	27	amended to read as follows:
28	28	(1) "At-risk student" means an undergraduate student
29	29	of an institution of higher education:
30	30	(A) who has previously received [been awarded] a
31	31	grant under the federal Pell Grant program or met the Expected
32	32	Family Contribution (EFC) criterion for a grant under that program;
33	33	or
34	34	(B) whose [who, on the date the student initially
35	35	enrolled in the institution:
36	36	[(i) was 20 years of age or older;
37	37	[(ii) had a] score on the SAT [Scholastic
38	38	Assessment Test (SAT)] or the ACT, excluding the optional essay
39	39	test, is [American College Test (ACT) that was] less than the
40	40	national mean of students' scores on the applicable [score for
41	41	students taking that] test[;
42	42	[(iii) was enrolled as a part-time student;
43	43	or
44	44	[(iv) had not received a high school
45	45	diploma but had received a high school equivalency certificate
46	46	within the last six years].
47	47	SECTION 3. Section 61.0593, Education Code, is amended by
48	48	amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsections (d-1), (d-2), and
49	49	(d-3) to read as follows:
50	50	(d) This subsection applies only to a general academic
51	51	teaching institution other than a public state college. In
52	52	devising its funding formulas and making its recommendations to the
53	53	legislature relating to institutional appropriations of funds
54	54	under Section 61.059 for institutions to which this subsection
55	55	applies, the board, in the manner and to the extent the board
56	56	considers appropriate and in consultation with those institutions,
57	57	shall prescribe a formula for allocating funds to the institutions
58	58	in proportion to the number of weighted points earned by each of the
59	59	institutions according to the following success measures
60	60	[incorporate the consideration of undergraduate student success
61	61	measures achieved during the preceding state fiscal biennium by
62	62	each of the institutions. At the time the board makes those
63	63	recommendations, the board shall also make recommendations for
64	64	incorporating the success measures, to the extent the board
65	65	considers appropriate in consultation with those institutions,
66	66	into the distribution of any incentive funds available for those
67	67	institutions, including performance incentive funds under
68	68	Subchapter D, Chapter 62. The board's recommendations must provide
69	69	alternative approaches for applying the success measures and must
70	70	compare the effects on funding of applying the success measures
71	71	within the formula for base funding to applying the success
72	72	measures as a separate formula. The success measures considered by
73	73	the board under this subsection may include]:
74	74	(1) the total number of bachelor's degrees awarded by
75	75	the institution to not at-risk students; and
76	76	(2) [the total number of bachelor's degrees in
77	77	critical fields awarded by the institution;
78	78	[(3)] the total number of bachelor's degrees awarded
79	79	by the institution to at-risk students[; and
80	80	[(4) as determined by the board, the six-year
81	81	graduation rate of undergraduate students of the institution who
82	82	initially enrolled in the institution in the fall semester
83	83	immediately following their graduation from a public high school in
84	84	this state as compared to the six-year graduation rate predicted
85	85	for those students based on the composition of the institution's
86	86	student body].
87	87	(d-1) In the formula prescribed under Subsection (d), the
88	88	board shall:
89	89	(1) compute points for each success measure using the
90	90	average number of degrees awarded for the three most recent
91	91	academic years for which the information is available; and
92	92	(2) assign the following weights to each degree
93	93	awarded by an institution to which that subsection applies:
94	94	(A) 1.0, for a not at-risk student; and
95	95	(B) 2.0, for an at-risk student.
96	96	(d-2) The board's recommendations under Subsection (d) must
97	97	provide and compare the alternative approaches of applying the
98	98	success measures described by that subsection within the formula
99	99	for base funding and applying the success measures described by
100	100	that subsection outside the formula for base funding.
101	101	(d-3) At the time the board makes its recommendations under
102	102	Subsection (d) for institutions to which that subsection applies,
103	103	the board shall also make recommendations for incorporating the
104	104	success measures described by that subsection, to the extent the
105	105	board considers appropriate in consultation with those
106	106	institutions, into the distribution of any incentive funds
107	107	available for those institutions, including performance incentive
108	108	funds under Subchapter D, Chapter 62.
109	109	SECTION 4. Sections 61.0593(b)(2), (c), and (e), Education
110	110	Code, are repealed.
111	111	SECTION 5. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
112	112	shall adopt rules for the administration of Section 61.0593,
113	113	Education Code, as amended by this Act, not later than May 1, 2018.
114	114	SECTION 6. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
115	115	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
116	116	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
117	117	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
118	118	Act takes effect September 1, 2017.