S.B. No. 719
AN ACT
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.
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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.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor