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House Bill 9 |
House Author: Branch et al. |
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Effective: 6-17-11 |
Senate Sponsor: Zaffirini |
House Bill 9 amends the Education Code to establish the Higher Education Outcomes-Based Funding Act requiring the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, in devising its funding formulas and making its recommendations to the legislature relating to institutional appropriations of funds for general academic teaching institutions other than public state colleges, to incorporate the consideration of undergraduate student success measures achieved during the preceding state fiscal biennium by each of the institutions. The bill also requires the coordinating board to make recommendations for incorporating the success measures into the distribution of any incentive funds available to those institutions, as well as to public junior colleges, public state colleges, and public technical institutes. The bill sets out certain requirements relating to the application of such recommendations and authorizes the success measures to include certain criteria.
The bill limits the amount of general revenue appropriations for undergraduate education recommended by the coordinating board for general academic teaching institutions other than public state colleges that may be based on student success measures and provides for a biennial review of the success measures.
The bill requires the coordinating board to adopt rules for the administration of the bill's provisions relating to student success-based funding recommendations, sets out requirements relating to the composition of committees formed to review the formulas for making appropriations recommendations, and requires the coordinating board to report to the Joint Oversight Committee on Higher Education Governance, Excellence, and Transparency before the 83rd Regular Session.