Bill Text: MI SB0559 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Higher education; tuition; use of tuition for financial assistance for other students; require reporting. Amends secs. 209 & 245 of 1979 PA 94 (MCL 388.1809 & 388.1845).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-09-26 - Referred To Committee On Appropriations [SB0559 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-SB0559-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL No. 559
September 26, 2013, Introduced by Senators BOOHER, COLBECK, ROBERTSON, SCHUITMAKER, KAHN, PAPPAGEORGE, BRANDENBURG and CASWELL and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
A bill to amend 1979 PA 94, entitled
"The state school aid act of 1979,"
by amending sections 209 and 245 (MCL 388.1809 and 388.1845), as
amended by 2013 PA 60.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 209. (1) Within 30 days after the board of a community
college adopts its annual operating budget for the following school
fiscal year, or after the board adopts a subsequent revision to
that budget, the community college shall make all of the following
available through a link on its website homepage:
(a) The annual operating budget and subsequent budget
revisions.
(b) A link to the most recent "Activities Classification
Structure Manual for Michigan Community Colleges".
(c) General fund revenue and expenditure projections for
fiscal year 2013-2014 and fiscal year 2014-2015.
(d) A listing of all debt service obligations, detailed by
project, anticipated fiscal year 2013-2014 payment of each project,
and total outstanding debt.
(e) The estimated cost to the community college resulting from
the patient protection and affordable care act, Public Law 111-148,
as amended by the health care and education reconciliation act of
2010, Public Law 111-152.
(f) Links to all of the following for the community college:
(i) The current collective bargaining agreement for each
bargaining unit.
(ii) Each health care benefits plan, including, but not limited
to, medical, dental, vision, disability, long-term care, or any
other type of benefits that would constitute health care services,
offered to any bargaining unit or employee of the community
college.
(iii) Audits and financial reports for the most recent fiscal
year for which they are available.
(iv) A copy of the board of trustees resolution regarding
compliance with best practices for the local strategic value
component described in section 230(3).
(g) If the community college uses any part of the tuition
payments it receives from some students to provide grants,
scholarships, work-study programs, student loans, or student loan
repayment assistance to other students enrolled in that community
college, the amount the community college used for that purpose in
the most recent fiscal year for which that information is
available.
(2) For statewide consistency and public visibility, community
colleges must use the icon badge provided by the department of
technology, management, and budget consistent with the icon badge
developed by the department of education for K-12 school districts.
It must appear on the front of each community college's homepage.
The size of the icon may be reduced to 150 x 150 pixels.
(3) The state budget director shall determine whether a
community college has complied with this section. The state budget
director may withhold a community college's monthly installments
described in section 206 until the community college complies with
this section. The state budget director shall notify the chairs of
the house and senate appropriations subcommittee on community
colleges at least 10 days before withholding funds from any
community college.
(4) Each community college shall report the following
information to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on
community colleges, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the
state budget office by November 15, 2013, and post that information
on the internet website required under subsection (1):
(a) Budgeted fiscal year 2013-2014 general fund revenue from
tuition and fees.
(b) Budgeted fiscal year 2013-2014 general fund revenue from
state appropriations.
(c) Budgeted fiscal year 2013-2014 general fund revenue from
property taxes.
(d) Budgeted fiscal year 2013-2014 total general fund revenue.
(e) Budgeted fiscal year 2013-2014 total general fund
expenditures.
Sec. 245. (1) Within 30 days after the board of a public
university adopts its annual operating budget for the following
school fiscal year, or after the board adopts a subsequent revision
to that budget, the public university shall make all of the
following available through a link on its website homepage:
(a) The annual operating budget and subsequent budget
revisions.
(b) A summary of current expenditures for the most recent
fiscal year for which they are available, expressed as pie charts
in the following 2 categories:
(i) A chart of personnel expenditures, broken into the
following subcategories:
(A) Earnings and wages.
(B) Employee benefit costs, including, but not limited to,
medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and long-term care
benefits.
(C) Retirement benefit costs.
(D) All other personnel costs.
(ii) A chart of all current expenditures the public university
reported as part of its higher education institutional data
inventory data under section 241(2), broken into the same
subcategories in which it reported those data.
(c) Links to all of the following for the public university:
(i) The current collective bargaining agreement for each
bargaining unit.
(ii) Each health care benefits plan, including, but not limited
to, medical, dental, vision, disability, long-term care, or any
other type of benefits that would constitute health care services,
offered to any bargaining unit or employee of the public
university.
(iii) Audits and financial reports for the most recent fiscal
year for which they are available.
(iv) Campus security policies and crime statistics pursuant to
the student right-to-know and campus security act, Public Law 101-
542, 104 Stat. 2381. Information shall include all material
prepared pursuant to the public information reporting requirements
under the crime awareness and campus security act of 1990, title II
of the student right-to-know and campus security act, Public Law
101-542, 104 Stat. 2381.
(d) A list of all positions funded partially or wholly through
institutional general fund revenue that includes the position title
and annual salary or wage amount for each position.
(e) General fund revenue and expenditure projections for
fiscal year 2013-2014 and fiscal year 2014-2015.
(f) A listing of all debt service obligations, detailed by
project, anticipated fiscal year 2013-2014 payment for each
project, and total outstanding debt.
(g) The institution's policy regarding the transferability of
core college courses between community colleges and the university.
(h) A listing of all community colleges that have entered into
reverse transfer agreements with the university.
(i) If the university uses any part of the tuition payments it
receives from some undergraduate students to provide grants,
scholarships, work-study programs, student loans, or student loan
repayment assistance to other undergraduate students enrolled in
that university, the amount the university used for that purpose in
the most recent fiscal year for which that information is
available.
(2) A public university shall provide a dashboard or report
card demonstrating the university's performance in several "best
practice" measures. The dashboard or report card shall include at
least all of the following for the 3 most recent school years for
which the data are available:
(a) Enrollment.
(b) Student retention rate.
(c) Six-year graduation rates.
(d) Number of Pell grant recipients and graduating Pell grant
recipients.
(e) Geographic origination of students, categorized as in-
state, out-of-state, and international.
(f) Faculty to student ratios and total university employee to
student ratios.
(g) Teaching load by faculty classification.
(h) Graduation outcome rates, including employment and
continuing education.
(3) For statewide consistency and public visibility, public
universities must use the icon badge provided by the department of
technology, management, and budget consistent with the icon badge
developed by the department of education for K-12 school districts.
It must appear on the front of each public university's homepage.
The size of the icon may be reduced to 150 x 150 pixels. The font
size and style for this reporting must be consistent with other
documents on each university's website.
(4) The state budget director shall determine whether a public
university has complied with this section. The state budget
director may withhold a public university's monthly installments
described in section 241 until the public university complies with
this section.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect October
1, 2013.
