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| 1 | 1 | 89R19685 TYPED | |
| 2 | 2 | By: Hagenbuch S.B. No. 2848 | |
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| 7 | 7 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 8 | 8 | AN ACT | |
| 9 | 9 | relating to performance-based funding goals for general academic | |
| 10 | 10 | teaching institutions. | |
| 11 | 11 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 12 | 12 | SECTION 1. Section 61.059, Education Code, is amended by | |
| 13 | 13 | adding a subsection (t) to read as follows: | |
| 14 | 14 | (t) In addition to other funding authorized by this section, | |
| 15 | 15 | beginning in the 2026-27 biennium, the legislature shall | |
| 16 | 16 | appropriate funding to general academic teaching institutions | |
| 17 | 17 | using an allocation methodology that includes outcome measures to | |
| 18 | 18 | incentivize students' timely graduation. The total amount of | |
| 19 | 19 | performance-based funding authorized by this subsection shall | |
| 20 | 20 | constitute not less than 15 percent of the sum of the total amount | |
| 21 | 21 | of performance-based funding distributed to all eligible | |
| 22 | 22 | institutions and the total amount of other formula funding | |
| 23 | 23 | authorized by this section. | |
| 24 | 24 | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |