BILL ANALYSIS

C.S.H.B. 2421

By: Howard

Higher Education

Committee Report (Substituted)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

Interested parties suggest that increasing the frequency of the report on employment positions provided through the Texas college work-study program and expanding the information included in the report would provide a more accurate, up-to-date, and reliable set of data. C.S.H.B. 2421 seeks to provide for those changes.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.

ANALYSIS

C.S.H.B. 2421 amends the Education Code to change the frequency with which the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is required to submit and post its report on the Texas college work-study program from biennially to annually and to change the deadline by which the coordinating board is required to submit its initial report from May 1, 2019, to September 1, 2018. The bill includes the governor, the lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of representatives among those to whom the coordinating board is required to submit the report and includes the following among the categories by which the number of students employed through the program and included in the report must be disaggregated: race, ethnicity, and gender; major and certificate or degree program; classification as a freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior or the equivalent; and enrollment in a full course load or less than a full course load, as determined by the coordinating board.

EFFECTIVE DATE

On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2017.

COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL AND SUBSTITUTE

While C.S.H.B. 2421 may differ from the original in minor or nonsubstantive ways, the following comparison is organized and formatted in a manner that indicates the substantial differences between the introduced and committee substitute versions of the bill.

INTRODUCED	HOUSE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
SECTION 1. Section 56.082, Education Code, is amended.	SECTION 1. Same as introduced version.
SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2018, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall submit its initial report required under Section 56.082, Education Code, as amended by this Act.	SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Section 56.082, Education Code, as amended by this Act, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall submit its initial report required under that section not later than September 1, 2018.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2017.	SECTION 3. Same as introduced version.