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BILL · 2019–20 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SSB 5960

SB 5960: Higher education data

Concerning higher education data and transparency.

Summary

  • Requires all postsecondary institutions that receive state financial aid to submit student level data to the Education Data Center.
  • Directs the Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board to maintain a publicly accessible dashboard with postsecondary cost and outcome data.
  • Requires public higher education institutions to spend directly out of appropriated accounts, not comingle them with non-appropriated fund sources.
  • Requires higher education institutions to report data by certain expenditure categories to the Office of Financial Management.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedFeb 19, 2019
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed Senate
  4. Passed House
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Guy Palumbo (D-1)
Introduced
February 19, 2019 in the Senate
Last action
January 13, 2020
Budget
Has a fiscal note
Versions
SB 5960, SSB 5960

AN ACT Relating to higher education data and transparency;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Guy Palumbo (D-1)

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. (SSB 5960)
  2. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  3. Referred to Ways & Means. (SSB 5960)
  4. Referred to Ways & Means.
  5. And refer to Ways & Means. (SSB 5960)
  6. HEWD - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SSB 5960)
  7. HEWD - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
  8. And refer to Ways & Means.
  9. First reading, referred to Higher Education & Workforce Development.

SB 5960 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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