Bill Text: FL S1456 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Postsecondary Performance-based Funding

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2017-05-05 - Died in Education [S1456 Detail]

Download: Florida-2017-S1456-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2017                                    SB 1456
       
       
        
       By Senator Clemens
       
       
       
       
       
       31-00840B-17                                          20171456__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to postsecondary performance-based
    3         funding; requiring the Office of Program Policy
    4         Analysis and Government Accountability (OPPAGA) to
    5         conduct a study relating to performance-based funding
    6         of public community colleges and universities;
    7         specifying requirements for the study; requiring
    8         OPPAGA to provide a report to the Legislature by a
    9         specified date; providing an effective date.
   10          
   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   13         Section 1. (1) The Office of Program Policy Analysis and
   14  Government Accountability (OPPAGA) shall conduct a performance
   15  funding study that must include:
   16         (a) The number of states with performance plans for public
   17  community colleges and universities.
   18         (b) The number of states that use specific metrics for each
   19  public community college and university and the number of states
   20  that use the same metrics for all public community colleges and
   21  universities.
   22         (c) The number of states that use recurring funds and the
   23  number of states that use nonrecurring funds.
   24         (d) The number of states that include performance funds in
   25  the base allocations for public community colleges and
   26  universities and the percentage amounts of such funds.
   27         (e) The number of states in which public community colleges
   28  and universities win awards for meeting performance benchmarks
   29  and the number of states that withhold funds if benchmarks are
   30  not met.
   31         (f) The number of states that allow the loss of the
   32  previous year’s base funding as a penalty within the performance
   33  plans.
   34         (g) Information on how each state establishes the metrics,
   35  including which entity establishes the metrics.
   36         (h) An analysis of Florida’s performance-based funding,
   37  including:
   38         1. Demographics of each Florida College System institution
   39  and state university.
   40         2. The average SAT and ACT score for incoming freshmen at
   41  each Florida College System institution and state university.
   42         3. The percentage of students enrolled at each Florida
   43  College System institution and state university who have been
   44  awarded a Florida Bright Futures Scholarship.
   45         4. The percentage of students enrolled at each Florida
   46  College System institution and state university who have been
   47  awarded a Pell grant.
   48         5. The percentage of students who are 18 to 24 years of age
   49  and are enrolled full time at each Florida College System
   50  institution and state university.
   51         6. The percentage of students who are 25 years of age or
   52  older and are enrolled full time at each Florida College System
   53  institution and state university.
   54         7. The percentage of students who are 18 to 24 years of age
   55  and are enrolled part time at each Florida College System
   56  institution and state university.
   57         8. The percentage of students who are 25 years of age or
   58  older and are enrolled part time at each Florida College System
   59  institution and state university.
   60         9. The history of performance-based awards granted to each
   61  Florida College System institution and state university.
   62         10. The number of performance-based metrics that are
   63  identical to the performance-based funding metrics used for
   64  Florida College System institutions and state universities.
   65         11. The number of performance-based metrics that are unique
   66  to each Florida College System institution and state university.
   67         (2) By December 1, 2017, OPPAGA shall submit a report
   68  comprising the information specified in subsection (1) to the
   69  President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of
   70  Representatives, and the standing legislative committees with
   71  substantive jurisdiction over performance-based funding for
   72  public postsecondary institutions.
   73         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2017.