Texas 2017 - 85th Regular

Texas House Bill HB430 Compare Versions

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1	1	By: Johnson of Harris H.B. No. 430
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4	4	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
5	5	AN ACT
6	6	relating to outcomes-based funding for general academic teaching
7	7	institutions.
8	8	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
9	9	SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 62, Education Code, is
10	10	amended to read as follows:
11	11	SUBCHAPTER D. OUTCOMES-BASED FUNDING FOR GENERAL ACADEMIC TEACHING
12	12	INSTITUTIONS [PERFORMANCE INCENTIVE FUNDING]
13	13	Sec. 62.071. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter:
14	14	(1) "At-risk student" means an undergraduate student
15	15	of an eligible institution:
16	16	(A) whose score on the Scholastic Assessment Test
17	17	(SAT) or the American College Test (ACT) is less than the national
18	18	mean score of students' scores on that test;
19	19	(B) who has been awarded a grant under the
20	20	federal Pell Grant program;
21	21	(C) who was 20 years of age or older on the date
22	22	the student initially enrolled in the institution;
23	23	(D) who is enrolled as a part-time student; or
24	24	(E) who did not receive a high school diploma but
25	25	received a high school equivalency certificate [within the last six
26	26	years].
27	27	(2) ["Critical field" means:
28	28	[(A) the field of engineering, computer science,
29	29	mathematics, physical science, allied health, nursing, or teacher
30	30	certification in a field of science or mathematics; and
31	31	[(B) any other field of study identified as a
32	32	critical field by the coordinating board in "Closing the Gaps," the
33	33	state's master plan for higher education.
34	34	[(3) "Eligible institution" means a general academic
35	35	teaching institution other than a public state college.
36	36	[(4)] "General academic teaching institution" has
37	37	[and "public state college" have] the meaning [meanings] assigned
38	38	by Section 61.003.
39	39	Sec. 62.072. BIENNIAL DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS TO GENERAL
40	40	ACADEMIC TEACHING INSTITUTIONS BASED ON OUTCOMES METRICS POINTS.
41	41	Except as provided by Section 62.073, for each state fiscal
42	42	biennium, the coordinating board shall distribute any funds
43	43	appropriated to the coordinating board by the legislature for the
44	44	purposes of this subchapter, and any other funds made available for
45	45	the purposes of this subchapter, to general academic teaching
46	46	institutions in an amount based on each institution's average
47	47	number of baccalaureate degrees awarded in a year during the
48	48	preceding three years according to the following distribution:
49	49	(1) $500 for each baccalaureate degree awarded to a
50	50	student who is not an at-risk student; and
51	51	(2) $1,000 for each baccalaureate degree awarded to an
52	52	at-risk student.
53	53	[FUNDING. (a) For each state fiscal year, the coordinating
54	54	board shall distribute any performance incentive funds
55	55	appropriated by the legislature for purposes of this subchapter,
56	56	and any other funds made available for the purposes of this
57	57	subchapter, to eligible institutions as follows:
58	58	[(1) 50 percent to be distributed among eligible
59	59	institutions in proportion to the increase, if any, in the average
60	60	number of degrees awarded annually by each institution in the two
61	61	most recent fiscal years from the average number of degrees awarded
62	62	annually by that institution in the two fiscal years immediately
63	63	preceding those fiscal years, using the weights assigned to each
64	64	degree under the table prescribed by Subsection (b); and
65	65	[(2) the remaining 50 percent to be distributed among
66	66	eligible institutions in proportion to the average number of
67	67	degrees awarded annually by each institution in the three most
68	68	recent fiscal years, using the weights assigned to each degree
69	69	under the table prescribed by Subsection (b).
70	70	[(b) A number of points is assigned for each degree awarded
71	71	by an eligible institution according to the following table:
72	72	[POINTS
73	73	[Noncritical Field/Not At-Risk Student1.0
74	74	[Noncritical Field/At-Risk Student2.0
75	75	[Critical Field/Not At-Risk Student2.0
76	76	[Critical Field/At-Risk Student3.0]
77	77	Sec. 62.073. DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS CONTINGENT ON FULL
78	78	FUNDING OF BASE FORMULA FUNDING. Funds may be distributed under
79	79	this subchapter for a state fiscal biennium only if the instruction
80	80	and operations formula for all general academic teaching
81	81	institutions for undergraduate education under Section 61.059 is
82	82	funded by appropriation for that biennium at a level, per weighted
83	83	semester credit hour, that is equal to or greater than the level at
84	84	which that formula was funded by appropriation for all general
85	85	academic teaching institutions in the preceding state fiscal
86	86	biennium, as that level is adjusted for inflation.
87	87	Sec. 62.074. RULES. The coordinating board shall adopt
88	88	rules for the administration of this subchapter, including any
89	89	rules the coordinating board considers necessary regarding the
90	90	submission to the coordinating board by eligible institutions of
91	91	any student data required for the coordinating board to carry out
92	92	its duties under this subchapter.
93	93	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
94	94	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
95	95	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
96	96	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
97	97	Act takes effect September 1, 2017.