Amend SB 634 (house committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Chapter 303, Labor Code, is amended by adding Section 303.007 to read as follows:
Sec. 303.007. PILOT PROGRAM: PUBLIC JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT REPORTING. (a) The commission, in consultation with public junior colleges, and the Legislative Budget Board, 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. The program shall consider the following data:
(1) expenses and student outcomes of public junior colleges participating in skills development fund programs under this chapter;
(2) the total amount of state appropriations, tax revenue, in-district and out-of-district tuition and fee revenue, and any other revenue received by the junior college district and the rates or methods by which those revenues are collected and allocated; and
(3) any other relevant data or reporting methodologies.
(b) Not later than June 1, 2018, the commission and the participating junior college districts shall report to the Legislative Budget Board the findings from the program, including best practices in reporting, methodologies in reporting, and a template for reporting.
(c) In the required report, the commission shall identify five junior college districts to report to the commission the district's financial and instructional costs using the reporting template developed under Subsection (b). The commission shall select participating junior college districts representative of:
(1) each of the public junior college district peer groups as identified by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, with two selected from the peer groups of the largest junior college district; and
(2) the geographic diversity of this state
(d) Each participating junior college district shall report 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.
(e) To the extent of any conflict, this section prevails over any rider regarding a reporting requirement following the appropriations to Public Community/Junior Colleges in SB1, Acts of the 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017 (the General Appropriations Act).
(f) This section expires December 31, 2020.