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HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION INFORMATION

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AMENDMENTS

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2019 GENERAL SESSION

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STATE OF UTAH

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Chief Sponsor: Jacob L. Anderegg

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House Sponsor: ____________

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8     LONG TITLE
9     General Description:
10          This bill requires the Utah Data Research Center to maintain a higher education
11     institution information website.
12     Highlighted Provisions:
13          This bill:
14          ▸     enacts provisions requiring the Utah Data Research Center (center) to report to the
15     Economic Development and Workforce Services Interim Committee;
16          ▸     requires the center to maintain a higher education institution information website;
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18          ▸     makes technical and conforming changes.
19     Money Appropriated in this Bill:
20          None
21     Other Special Clauses:
22          None
23     Utah Code Sections Affected:
24     AMENDS:
25          35A-14-304, as enacted by Laws of Utah 2017, Chapter 375
26     RENUMBERS AND AMENDS:
27          35A-14-305, (Renumbered from 53B-1-112, as last amended by Coordination Clause,
28     Laws of Utah 2018, Chapter 315)
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30     Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
31          Section 1. Section 35A-14-304 is amended to read:
32          35A-14-304. Reporting.
33          (1) The center shall report to the Education Interim Committee and the Economic
34     Development and Workforce Services Interim Committee:
35          (a) before July 1 of each year regarding the center's:
36          (i) research priorities for the year; and
37          (ii) completed research from the previous year; and
38          (b) before December 1 of each year, the center's ongoing data research priority list
39     described in Subsection 35A-14-302(2).
40          (2) The Education Interim Committee and the Economic Development and Workforce
41     Services Interim Committee shall provide the center ongoing input regarding the center's data
42     research priorities.
43          Section 2. Section 35A-14-305, which is renumbered from Section 53B-1-112 is
44     renumbered and amended to read:
45          [53B-1-112].      35A-14-305. Higher education institution information
46     website.
47          (1) As used in this section:
48          (a) "Department" means the Department of Workforce Services.
49          (b) [(i)] "Institution" means[:] an institution listed in Subsections 53B-2-101(1)(a)
50     through (h).
51          [(A) the University of Utah;]
52          [(B) Utah State University;]
53          [(C) Weber State University;]
54          [(D) Southern Utah University;]
55          [(E) Snow College;]
56          [(F) Dixie State University;]
57          [(G) Utah Valley University;]
58          [(H) Salt Lake Community College; and]
59          [(I) except as provided in Subsection (1)(b)(iii), any other university or college
60     established and maintained by the state.]
61          [(ii) "Institution" includes a branch or affiliated institution and a campus or facility
62     owned, operated, or controlled by the governing board of the university or college.]
63          [(iii) "Institution" does not include a technical college.]
64          (c) "Job placement [data] information" means information collected by the [board]
65     center, and based on information from the department, that reflects the job placement rate and
66     industry employment information for a student who graduates from a program.
67          (d) (i) "Program" means a program of organized instruction or study at an institution
68     that leads to:
69          (A) an academic degree;
70          (B) a professional degree;
71          (C) a vocational degree;
72          (D) a certificate of one year or greater or the direct assessment equivalent; or
73          (E) another recognized educational credential.
74          (ii) "Program" includes instruction or study that, in lieu of time as a measurement for
75     student learning, utilizes direct assessment of student learning, or recognizes the direct
76     assessment of student learning by others, if the assessment is consistent with the accreditation
77     of the institution or program utilizing the results of the assessment.
78          (e) "Student loan information" means the percentage of students at an institution who:
79          (i) received a Title IV loan authorized under:
80          (A) the Federal Perkins Loan Program;
81          (B) the Federal Family Education Loan Program; or
82          (C) the William D. Ford Direct Loan Program; and
83          (ii) fail to pay a loan described in Subsection (1)(e)(i)[(A), (B), or (C)].
84          (f) "Total costs" means:
85          (i) the estimated costs a student would incur while completing a program, including:
86          (A) tuition and fees; and
87          (B) books, supplies, and equipment; and
88          (ii) calculated based on a student's [degree] program, the institution's average costs that
89     would be incurred while a student completes a program and are subsidized by taxpayer
90     contribution, including:
91          (A) tuition and fees; and
92          (B) other applicable expenses subsidized by taxpayer contribution for program
93     completion.
94          (g) "Student payment options" means a program or resource, including the following,
95     that provides funds for a student for payment of total costs or a portion of total costs:
96          (i) a private or public loan program for which a student may be eligible;
97          (ii) grants for which a student may be eligible;
98          (iii) work-study stipends for which a student by may be eligible;
99          (iv) payment from personal finances; or
100          (v) public or private scholarships for which a student may be eligible.
101          [(g)] (h) "Wage [data] information" means information collected by the [board] center,
102     and based on information from the department, that reflects a student's wage the first year and
103     fifth year after a student has successfully completed a program.
104          (2) (a) The center shall make available to the public, on a website maintained by the
105     center, the following information for each program within each institution:
106          (i) job placement information;
107          (ii) to the extent supporting information is available, student loan information;
108          (iii) total costs;
109          (iv) student payment options; and
110          (v) wage information.
111          (b) Upon request, the Board of Regents shall provide the center with information
112     described in this section.
113          (3) The website shall display the information described in Subsection (2) in an
114     accessible format that:
115          (a) may be customized to an individual's post-secondary education plans;
116          (b) provides student payment options that are relevant and reasonably available to an
117     individual student; and
118          (c) allows for easy comparison of:
119          (i) the same program or similar programs between at least two institutions; or
120          (ii) one or more programs between at least two institutions or within the same
121     institution.
122          [(2) (a) Except as provided in Subsection (5), for each program listed in an institution's
123     course catalog or each program otherwise offered by the institution, the institution shall
124     provide a conspicuous and direct link on the institution's website, subject to Subsection (2)(b),
125     to the following information maintained by the board in accordance with Subsection (3):]
126          [(i) job placement data;]
127          [(ii) to the extent supporting data is available, student loan information;]
128          [(iii) total costs; and]
129          [(iv) wage data.]
130          [(b)] (4) An institution shall include [the information] a conspicuous and direct link to
131     the website described in Subsection (2)[(a)] on each institutional [website] web page that
132     includes academic, cost, financial aid, or admissions information for a program.
133          [(3)] (5) The [board or the board's designee] center shall:
134          (a) collect the information described in Subsection (2)[(a)];
135          (b) develop through user testing a format for the display of information described in
136     Subsection (2)[(a)] that is easily accessible and informative; and
137          (c) maintain the information and website described in Subsection (2)[(a)] so that it is
138     current.
139          [(4)] (6) No later than [July 1, 2018] May 1, 2020:
140          (a) the [board] center shall make the [information] website described in Subsection
141     [(2)(a) available in a format described in Subsection (3)(b)] (2) available; and
142          (b) an institution shall [include the information described in Subsection (2)(a) in
143     accordance with Subsection (2)(b)] comply with Subsection (4).
144          [(5)] (7) An institution is not subject to Subsection [(2)] (4) for a program that the
145     institution is required to report on under 34 C.F.R. Sec. 668.412.
146          [(6) The board shall, in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative
147     Rulemaking Act, make rules for the implementation and administration of this section.]