Section 13.554 - Base Tier Allotment(a) Coordinating Board staff will calculate Base Tier funding for each public junior college district (district) as the greater of the Instruction and Operations (I&O) amount minus Local Share and zero.(b) A district's I&O amount is the sum of the number of Weighted Full-Time Student Equivalents (Weighted FTSE) enrolled at the district multiplied by the Basic Allotment amount calculated by the Commissioner of Higher Education as provided in subsection (c) of this section and the district's total Contact Hour Funding as determined by the Coordinating Board.(1) Weighted FTSE for each district is the sum of the district's full-time student equivalents weighted for the student characteristics under subparagraph (B) of this paragraph and the scale adjustment as provided in Texas Education Code, § 130A.054. (A) For purposes of determining annual Weighted FTSE as a component of formula funding for the fiscal year under this section, a district's full-time student equivalents (FTSE) is equal to the sum of:(i) the total semester credit hours in which for-credit students were enrolled at the district as of the census dates of all academic semesters or other academic terms that were reported for the fiscal year two years prior, divided by 30; and(ii) the total contact hours in which continuing education students were enrolled at the district as of the census dates of all academic semesters or other academic terms that were reported for the fiscal year two years prior, divided by 900.(B) The Coordinating Board shall apply a weight to the calculation of Weighted FTSE as follows: (i) if a student is classified as economically disadvantaged during the fiscal year two years prior, FTSE generated by that student shall have an additional value of 25%;(ii) if a student is classified as academically disadvantaged during the fiscal year two years prior, FTSE generated by that student shall have an additional value of 25%; and(iii) if a student is classified as an adult learner on September 1 of the fiscal year two years prior, FTSE generated by that student shall have an additional value of 50%.(C) The Coordinating Board calculates a district's scale adjustment weight as the greater of the difference between 5,000 and the number of FTSE as defined in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph multiplied by.40, and zero.(2) For the purpose of calculating formula funding amounts for the fiscal year, Coordinating Board staff will calculate Contact Hour Funding for a public junior college district by first multiplying the number of reported certified fundable contact hours generated by the district in each discipline during the Base Year of the fiscal year by the average cost of delivery per contact hour for each discipline respectively as described in the Report of Fundable Operating Expenses in accordance with § 13.524(c) of this chapter (relating to Required Reporting) and summing across all disciplines. Contact hours attributable to students enrolled in a junior-level or senior-level course are weighed in the same manner as a lower division course in a corresponding field. That sum will then be multiplied by a rate calculated by the Commissioner of Higher Education as provided in subsection (c) of this section in accordance with the General Appropriations Act to calculate the district's Contact Hour Funding.(c) The Commissioner shall calculate the Basic Allotment and the rate to be used for calculating districts' Contact Hour Funding such that:(1) Contact Hour Funding is equivalent to Basic Allotment Funding for the fiscal year; and(2) The sum of base tier funding to all districts for the fiscal year equals one-nineteenth of the sum of performance tier foundation payments calculated using funding certified data as described in subchapter U of this chapter (relating to Community College Finance Program: Forecasting Methodology and Finance Policy) by June 1 prior to the fiscal year.(3) The Commissioner may modify the base tier funding on a pro rata basis in accordance with this subsection to account for any changes to performance tier totals arising from any amendments to rule adopted by the Board between June 1 and the beginning of the fiscal year.(d) For the purpose of calculating formula funding amounts for the fiscal year, the Local Share for each public junior college district equals the sum of: (1) the estimated amount of revenue that would have been generated by the district if it had assessed a $0.05 maintenance and operations ad valorem tax on each $100 of taxable property value in its taxing district, as reported under § 13.524 of this chapter, which the Coordinating Board will calculate as the district's current tax collection for fiscal year two years prior multiplied by the ratio of the maintenance and operations tax rate to the total tax rate, divided by the product of the maintenance and operations tax rate and 100 and multiplied by five; and(2) the amount of tuition and fee revenue calculated as the sum of:(A) the district's FTSE two fiscal years prior as defined in subsection (b)(1)(A) of this section, except for semester credit hours derived from students enrolled in dual credit or dual enrollment courses, multiplied by a rate calculated by the Commissioner of Higher Education, which is the enrollment-weighted statewide average of tuition and fees charges to full-time equivalent students residing within the district of the public junior college they attend, as reported by the public junior colleges in the Integrated Fiscal Reporting System for the fiscal year two fiscal years prior; and(B) the total semester credit hours of dual credit courses in which students were enrolled as of the census dates of all academic semesters or other academic terms that were reported in the fiscal year two years prior, multiplied by the Financial Aid for Swift Transfer (FAST) tuition rate as codified in § 13.504 of this chapter (relating to Financial Aid for Swift Transfer (FAST) Tuition Rate) in the fiscal year two years prior. For fiscal year 2023, the FAST tuition rate is equal to the rate for fiscal year 2024.19 Tex. Admin. Code § 13.554
Adopted by Texas Register, Volume 49, Number 32, August 9, 2024, TexReg 5974, eff. 8/15/2024