Bill Text: TX SB49 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 49

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to performance tier funding under the public junior college state finance program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [SB49 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-SB49-Introduced.html

	89R1453 KJE-D

	By: Zaffirini	S.B. No. 49



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to performance tier funding under the public junior
	college state finance program.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 130A.101(c), Education Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(c) The measurable outcomes considered for purposes of
	performance tier funding are:
	(1) the number of credentials of value awarded, as
	determined by the coordinating board based on analyses of wages and
	costs associated with the credential, including degrees,
	certificates, and other credentials from credit and non-credit
	programs that equip students for continued learning and greater
	earnings in the state economy, with an additional weight for
	placement of students who earn that credential in a high-demand
	occupation, as defined by coordinating board rule, or an
	appropriate proxy determined by the coordinating board based on
	available data;
	(2) the number of students who earn at least 15
	semester credit hours or the equivalent at the junior college
	district and:
	(A) subsequently transfer to:
	(i) a general academic teaching
	institution, as that term is defined by Section 61.003; or
	(ii) a private or independent institution
	of higher education, as that term is defined by Section 61.003, that
	offers four-year degree programs; or
	(B) are enrolled in a structured co-enrollment
	program, as authorized by coordinating board rule; and
	(3) the number of students who complete a sequence of
	at least 15 semester credit hours or the equivalent for dual credit
	or dual enrollment courses, as defined by coordinating board rule,
	that apply toward academic or workforce program requirements at the
	postsecondary level.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.