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HF 2241

as introduced - 89th Legislature (2015 - 2016) Posted on 04/20/2015 11:52am

KEY: stricken = removed, old language.
underscored = added, new language.

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Introduction Posted on 04/17/2015

Current Version - as introduced

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A bill for an act
relating to higher education; requiring itemization of expenditures made from
state appropriations by the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota State
Colleges and Universities; requiring a report related to administrative cost
savings at the University of Minnesota; amending Minnesota Statutes 2014,
section 135A.031, subdivision 7.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2014, section 135A.031, subdivision 7, is amended to
read:


Subd. 7.

Reports.

(a) The University of Minnesota and the Minnesota State Colleges
and Universities systems shall include in their biennial budget proposals to the legislature:

(1) a five-year history of systemwide expenditures, reported by:

(i) functional areas, including instruction, research, public service, student financial
aid, and auxiliary services, and including direct costs and indirect costs, such as
institutional support, academic support, student services, and facilities management,
associated with each functional area; and

(ii) objects of expenditure, such as salaries, benefits, supplies, and equipment;

(2) a five-year history of the system's total instructional expenditures per full-year
equivalent student, by level of instruction, including upper-division undergraduate,
lower-division undergraduate, graduate, professional, and other categories of instructional
programs offered by the system;

(3) a five-year history of the system's total revenues by funding source, including
tuition, state operations and maintenance appropriations, state special appropriations, other
restricted state funds, federal appropriations, sponsored research funds, gifts, auxiliary
revenue, indirect cost recovery, and any other revenue sources;

(4) an explanation describing how state appropriations made to the system in the
previous biennium were allocated deleted text begin anddeleted text end new text begin ,new text end the methodology used to determine the allocationnew text begin ,
and an itemization of expenditures made within each allocation by department, program,
or academic unit
new text end ;

(5) data describing how the institution reallocated resources to advance the priorities
set forth in the budget submitted under section 135A.034 and the statewide objectives
under section 135A.011. The information must indicate whether instruction and support
programs received a reduction in or additional resources. The total amount reallocated
must be clearly explained;

(6) the tuition rates and fees established by the governing board in each of the past
ten years and comparison data for peer institutions and national averages;

(7) data on the number and proportion of students graduating within four, five,
and six years from universities and within three years from colleges as reported in the
integrated postsecondary education data system. These data must be provided for each
institution by race, ethnicity, and gender. Data and information must be submitted that
describe the system's plan and progress toward attaining the goals set forth in the plan
to increase the number and proportion of students that graduate within four, five, or six
years from a university or within three years from a college;

(8) data on, and the methodology used to measure, the number of students
traditionally underrepresented in higher education enrolled at the system's institutions.
Data and information must be submitted that describe the system's plan and progress
toward attaining the goals set forth in the plan to increase the recruitment, retention, and
timely graduation of students traditionally underrepresented in higher education; and

(9) data on the revenue received from all sources to support research or workforce
development activities or the system's efforts to license, sell, or otherwise market products,
ideas, technology, and related inventions created in whole or in part by the system. Data
and information must be submitted that describe the system's plan and progress toward
attaining the goals set forth in the plan to increase the revenue received to support research
or workforce development activities or revenue received from the licensing, sale, or other
marketing and technology transfer activities by the system.

(b) Data required by this subdivision shall be submitted by the public postsecondary
systems to the Minnesota Office of Higher Education and the Department of Management
and Budget and included in the biennial budget document. Representatives from each
system, in consultation with the commissioner of management and budget and the
commissioner of the Office of Higher Education, shall develop consistent reporting
practices for this purpose.

(c) To the extent practicable, each system shall develop the ability to respond to
legislative requests for financial analyses that are more detailed than those required by this
subdivision, including but not limited to analyses that show expenditures or revenues by
institution or program, or in multiple categories of expenditures or revenues, and analyses
that show revenue sources for particular types of expenditures.

Sec. 2. new text begin REPORT ON ADMINISTRATIVE COST SAVINGS.
new text end

new text begin No later than January 15, 2016, and annually thereafter, the University of Minnesota
must submit a report to the commissioner of management and budget, and to the
committees of the house of representatives and the senate with jurisdiction over higher
education finance and policy, documenting all reductions in administrative costs at the
university. The report must detail the amount and nature of each administrative cost that
was reduced and, if the savings resulting from the reduction were reallocated to another
purpose within the university, the department, program, or academic unit to which the
reallocation was directed, and the purpose for which it will be used.
new text end

new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end

new text begin This section expires upon submission of the report required
to be filed on January 15, 2020.
new text end