Community college budget request recalibration.

ORIGINAL
House
Bill No
.
HB0080

ENROLLED ACT NO. 29,

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SIXTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2016 Budget Session

AN ACT relating to the Wyoming community college commission; modifying the standard and exception budget request processes for state appropriations for community colleges; requiring a recalibration of the standard budget request as specified; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
.

W.S. 21
‑
18
‑
102(a)
(xii),
by creating
new
paragraphs (xvi) through (x
x
i
i) and by renumbering (xvi) as (
x
x
i
ii
) and
21
‑
18
‑
203(a) and b
y creating a new subsection (
e
)
are amended to read:

21
‑
18
‑
102
.

Definitions.

(a)

As used in this act:

(xii)

"
Full
‑
time equivalency
"
means the number of approved academic or vocational
‑
technical credit hours for each class for which students are enrolled divided by twelve (12)
. In calculating full
‑
time equivalency, the census date of student enrollment as audited by the commission shall be used
;

(xvi)

"
Annual weighted average
enrollment
"
means
the total of three (3) consecutive academic years
'

full
‑
time weighted equivalency
enrollment
in which the most recent academic year is
multiplied by

one
‑
half
(
.
5) and the immediately preceding two (2) academic years are
multiplied by one
‑
quarter (.
25)
;

(x
v
i
i
)

"
Distance education c
lass
"
means a c
lass
in which
th
e
instructor
and a majority of students are physically separated by time or space, and a communications source other than face to face in class instruction is used
to provide synchronous or asynchronous instruction. A c
lass
which qualifies as a distance education c
lass
shall not be considered a level one, level two or level three c
lass
;

(xv
ii
i)

"
Full
‑
time weighted equivalency
enrollment
"
means full
‑
time equivalency with credit hours for each class assigned a weighting system as follows:

(A)

Each d
istance education class credit hour
shall be multiplied by
eight
‑
tenths
(.8)
;

(B)

Each l
evel one class credit hour
shall be multiplied by one (1)
;

(C)

Each l
evel two class
credit hour shall be multiplied by one and one
‑
quarter (1.25)
;

(D)

Each l
evel three class
credit hour shall be multiplied by one and one
‑
half (1.5)
.

(x
i
x
)

"
Level
one
c
lass
"
means a
c
lass

guided by an instructor through
c
ourse material via classroom lecture, limited field trips, multimedia, text book reading, written assignm
ents
and one
‑
on
‑
one tutorial
wherein
students rely on the instructor to lead the class and assign appropriate homework and
tests
based on class lecture
;

(x
x
)

"
Level
two
c
lass
"
means a c
lass
taught in a
laboratory setting,
supplemented but not solely based on lecture, textbook reading, field trips, writing assignments and the use of multimedia;

(x
x
i
)

"
Level
three

c
lass
"
means
a c
lass
that is highly technical
and
requires significant ancillary equipment. Level three c
lasses
incorporate all methods of
instruction with the primary emphasis of instruction centering on equipment and hands
‑
on experiences;

(xxii)

"
Standard budget base amount
"
means a base budget amount of one hundred ninety
‑
four million seven hundred two thousand one hundred thirty
‑
one dollars ($194,702,131.00)
adjusted by
all increases
and decreases
enacted pursuant to W.S. 21
‑
18
‑
203(e);

(xvi)
(xx
i
i
i
)

"
This act
"
means W.S. 21
‑
18
‑
101 through 21
‑
18
‑
317.

21
‑
18
‑
203
.

Budget procedure.

(a)

In collaboration with the boards of the community colleges, the commission shall submit state appropriation requests on behalf of the community college system in compliance with the statewide community college system strategic plan
.
, which are based upon amounts appropriated to the system by the legislature for the biennial period immediately preceding the biennium for which the budget request is to be made. Exception budget requests may be made for any biennial budget period by the commission on behalf of the college system which are in addition to the prior period adjusted amount and unless otherwise specified by the commission, are limited exclusively to the fiscal period for which the request is submitted and shall not be included in the standard budget request of any subsequent biennial budget request.

The standard budget request
submitted by the commission for state aid to community colleges under W.S. 21
‑
18
‑
205
for the fiscal biennium commencing
July 1, 20
20
and every
four years
thereafter, shall be equal to the amount defined in W.S. 9
‑
2
‑
1002(a)(ix).
A
request for
an enrollment adjustment to the standard budget for
state
aid to
community colleges shall be
submitt
ed every four (4) years commencing in the
fiscal
biennium beginning July 1, 2018
. The enrollment
adjustment shall be based solely upon the calculation under
subsection (
e
) of this section.
The
budget
requests shall be made upon forms and in a format to be determined by the budget division of the department of administration and information.

(
e
)

An enrollment adjustment request

shall be based upon
changes in
annual

weighted
average

enrollment
and only for variable costs.

An
enrollment adjustment
request for
a percentage

increase or de
crease
to a standard budget base amount for

annual weighted average enrollment
shall be
calculated as follows:

(i)

The variable cost percentage determined pursuant to W.S. 21
‑
18
‑
205(c)
multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the
difference in the
a
nnual weighted average
enrollment
for the three (3)

most re
cent academic years
and the annual weighted average enrollment at the time of last enrollment adjustment request submitted pursuant to this subsection
, the denominator of which is the a
nnual weighted average
enrollment
at the time of the last
enrollment adjustment request submitted pursuant to
this subsection
;

(ii)

The standard budget enrollment adjustment request submitted for the fiscal biennium commencing July 1, 2018 shall apply the formula in paragraph (i) of this
sub
section, with the substitution of annual weighted average enrollment
for

fiscal years 201
3
, 201
4
and 201
5
in lieu of the
"
annual weighted average enrollment at the time of the last enrollment adjustment request submitted pursuant to this subsection
"
;

(iii)

Any funding increase or decrease as determined by the state legislature shall be distributed in proportion to the funding amounts determined in W.S. 21
‑
18
‑
205(c).

Section
2
.

This act is effective
July 1, 2016.

(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the House.

Chief Clerk

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