85R11149 JRJ-F By: Raney H.B. No. 2975 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to requiring public junior colleges to report certain financial and instructional information for certain instructional locations. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. This Act shall be known as The Junior College Funding and Reporting Transparency Act. SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 130, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 130.0037 to read as follows: Sec. 130.0037. INSTRUCTIONAL SITE REPORTING REQUIREMENT. (a) In this section, "instructional site" means a facility located within the service area of a junior college district, other than the main campus of the district, at which the district enrolls 2,000 students or more in an academic year. (b) Not later than December 1 of each fiscal year, each junior college district shall submit a report to the Legislative Budget Board that includes the following information for each instructional site of the junior college district: (1) the number of contact hours, including those generated from distance learning, for the preceding academic year; (2) student attainment of completion milestones for the preceding academic year as measured by a performance funding formula established by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board under Section 51.3062(m); (3) the total amount of state appropriations, tax revenue, and tuition and fee revenue received by the junior college district in the preceding fiscal year generated by student enrollment at the instructional site with an indication of the following: (A) in-district and out-of-district tuition and fee revenue amounts; and (B) if applicable, tuition and fee revenue amounts collected for dual credit courses; (4) an itemized statement of the total amount of money expended on the instructional site in the preceding fiscal year by the junior college district; and (5) the number of full-time and adjunct faculty at the instructional site for the preceding academic year as determined by the location of the faculty member's primary office. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.