LLS NO. 97-0260.01D JBC SENATE BILL 97-181
BY SENATORS Lacy, Blickensderfer, and Rizzuto;
also REPRESENTATIVES Grampsas, Owen, and Romero.
Concerning a supplemental appropriation to the department of higher education.
(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does not necessarily reflect any amendments which may be subsequently adopted.)
Makes a supplemental appropriation to the department of higher education.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
SECTION 1. Part VI of section 2 of chapter 324, Session Laws of Colorado 1996, is amended to read:
Section 2. Appropriation.
FOOTNOTES -- The following statements are referenced to the numbered footnotes throughout section 2.
2(Governor lined through this provision. See L. 96, p. 2272.)
3All Departments, Totals -- The General Assembly requests that copies of all reports requested in other footnotes contained in this act be delivered to the Joint Budget Committee and the majority and minority leadership in each house of the General Assembly.
39Department of Higher Education, Colorado Commission on Higher Education, Administration -- The Colorado Commission on Higher Education is requested to include in its annual budget request a listing of how each campus plans to expend its policy area funding during the FY 1996-97 fiscal year. The Commission should submit this information to the Joint Budget Committee with the Higher Education budget request by November 1, 1996.
40Department of Higher Education, Colorado Commission on Higher Education, Administration; Trustees of the State Colleges in Colorado; State Board of Agriculture; Regents of the University of Colorado; Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines; University of Northern Colorado; State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education -- The Colorado Commission on Higher Education is requested to submit a report to the Joint Budget Committee concerning the appropriate role for faculty at the state’s various public institutions of higher education. This report should address the appropriateness of tenure at each type of higher education institution, the current types of post-tenure review, the proper balance between full-time and part-time faculty, and the proper balance between research and teaching. These topics should be addressed with reference to the different types of higher education institutions in the state. The Colorado Commission on Higher Education is requested to outline any possible policy or statutory changes recommended in these areas. The ColoradoCommission on Higher Education is requested to work with the state's governing boards of higher education in preparing this report. This report shall be submitted to the Joint Budget Committee by October 1, 1996.
40aDepartment of Higher Education, Colorado Commission on Higher Education, Administration -- It is the intent of the General Assembly that for FY 1997-98, the Colorado Commission on Higher Education will recommend to the Joint Budget Committee increased policy area funding only for those institutions showing achievement of the policy area goals or satisfactory progress toward achieving the policy area goals established in Sections 23-1-105 and 23-1-122, C.R.S.
41Department of Higher Education, Colorado Commission on Higher Education, Special Purpose, Mesa State College Graduate Program/Western Graduate Center -- It is the intent of the General Assembly that the General Fund appropriation for FY 1996-97 is the last year of start-up funds for the Western Colorado Graduate Center and the Mesa State College graduate program in business. Any future funds for these programs shall be from program enrollment.
41a(Governor lined through this provision. See L. 96, p. 2273.)
42Department of Higher Education, Colorado Commission on Higher Education, Special Purpose, Technology Grants -- It is the intent of the General Assembly that of this amount, $2 million be used to acquire instructional technology to allow faculty to provide instruction to undergraduate students and ensure that suchinstruction leads to jobs in technology related fields. In addition to the acquisition instructional technology, this $2 million can be used for the establishment of programs to train higher education faculty, other instructional personnel, and undergraduate students in the use of new and emerging instructional technology.
43Department of Higher Education, Colorado Commission on Higher Education, Special Purpose, Enrollment/Cash Fund Contingency -- The Colorado Commission on Higher Education may transfer spending authority from this line item to the Governing Boards in the event that tuition or other cash fund revenues increase beyond appropriated levels. The spending authority for this line item shall be in addition to the funds appropriated directly to the Governing Boards. The Colorado Commission on Higher Education shall not authorize transfers for spending authority from this line item to support tuition or fee increases.
44Department of Higher Education, Colorado Commission on Higher Education, Financial Aid, Work Study -- It is the intent of the General Assembly to allow the Colorado Commission on Higher Education to roll forward 2 percent of the Work Study appropriation to the next fiscal year.
45Department of Higher Education, Trustees of the State Colleges in Colorado; State Board of Agriculture; Regents of the University of Colorado; Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines; University of Northern Colorado; State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education -- It is the intent of the General Assembly that operating and travel costs be reduced by 1 percent for each governing board from their FY 1995-96 levels.
46Department of Higher Education, Trustees of the State Colleges in Colorado; State Board of Agriculture; Regents of the University of Colorado; Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines; University of Northern Colorado; State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education -- It is the intent of the General Assembly that the average resident tuition rates by Governing Board be raised up to 2.3 percent and the average nonresident tuition rates by Governing Board be raised up to 4.3 percent. These rates are used in order to increase spending authority for program enhancements and this is not an attempt by the General Assembly to set tuition policy. Each Governing Board will give consideration to establishing equity of tuition increases among the campuses under the Governing Board's jurisdiction. In addition to the tuition increases outlined above, Metro State College of Denver is allowed to increase its resident and non-resident tuition rates by up to 4 percent above the standard increases approved for all institutions. Also, the General Assembly has approved an additional $401,011 in tuition spending authority for the following programs at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center: Masters in Public Health; Graduate Program in Genetic Counseling; Child Health Associate/Physician Assistant Program; Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy Program; and Doctor of Pharmacy. The University of Colorado is allowed to increase the tuition in these programs in amounts not to exceed the additional spending authority specified above.
46aDepartment of Higher Education, Regents of the University of Colorado, Board of Regents and General Campuses, General Fund and Tuition Allocation -- It is the intent of the General Assembly that the Regents reduce their travel budget by $5,000.
47Department of Higher Education, State Board of Agriculture -- The appropriations for the Colorado State University Agricultural Experiment Station, Cooperative Extension Service, and the State Forest Service have been combined with the State Board of Agriculture line item. It is the intent of the GeneralAssembly that funding for these agencies will be through the State Board of Agriculture for the fiscal years 1996-97, 1997-98, and 1998-99. The General Assembly requests that the State Board of Agriculture report to the Joint Budget Committee by November 1 of each year regarding the efficiencies and other benefits of the combined budget format. The General Assembly may reevaluate the budget structure for the FY 1997-98 fiscal year.
48Department of Higher Education, Regents of the University of Colorado, Health Sciences Center, Colorado Child Health Plan, Administration -- It is the intent of the General Assembly that the Child Health Plan make efforts to reduce its administration and FTE costs. It is furthermore the intent of the General Assembly that this appropriation be used only toward direct program costs and that no General Fund appropriation be expended on administrative costs. The General Fund appropriation for FY 1996-97 is drawn from savings achieved from a one percent state-wide operating expenses reduction. In making this General Fund appropriation, however, the General Assembly in no way assures continuing funding; therefore, the program should look to other sources of revenue to support the program. The Child Health Plan is requested to provide to the Joint Budget Committee by no later than October 15, 1996, its plan for utilizing other sources of revenue to support the on-going needs of the program and its suggestions for how to lower administrative overhead expenses associated with the operation of the current program.
49Department of Higher Education, Division of Occupational Education, Customized Job Training; and Existing Industry Training -- These programs are requested to submit to the Joint Budget Committee, by November 1, 1996, a detailed plan for accountability including review criteria for selection of companies to participate, the number of new jobs created by these programs, the number of unemployed and underemployed individuals who were trained and employedby these programs, the amount of new personal income and state personal and corporate income tax generated by these programs, the time period for repayment of state investment in these programs, and the number of persons taken off state support programs and the money saved thereby. Up to ten percent of the Customized Job Training appropriation may be used to supplement the Existing Industry Training appropriation.
50Department of Higher Education, State Historical Society; and Judicial Department, Courts Administration, Judicial/Heritage Complex -- It is the intent of the General Assembly that any requests for increased funding for the Judicial Heritage Complex should include an appropriate level of cash funds, federal funds, or both from sources available to the Colorado Commission on Higher Education and the Colorado Historical Society.
51Department of Higher Education, State Historical Society, Administration, Administration and General -- The State Historical Society should continue to update the Joint Budget Committee on its progress to reduce General Fund support. The Society is requested to provide this update in a report submitted with the Society's FY 1997-98 budget request.
52Department of Higher Education, Colorado Advanced Technology Institute; and Department of Local Affairs, Economic Development, Economic Development Programs, Department of Higher Education, Colorado Advanced Technology Institute, Program Costs -- The Institute is requested to have an overall cash funds matching ratio of at least 1.2 private funds to 1.0 state funds, and a federal funds matching ratio of at least 3.0 federal funds to 1.0 state funds. The Institute is also requested to submit a concise report to the Joint Budget Committee by November 1, 1996, showing what has been achieved in this area as aresult of the Institute's efforts and what has not worked.
SECTION 2. Safety clause. The general assembly hereby finds, determines, and declares that this act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety.