1. Each public four-year institution of higher education shall annually prepare an institutional budget request and submit it to the department of higher education and workforce development. The department of higher education and workforce development shall review all institutional budget requests and prepare appropriation recommendations annually for each public four-year institution of higher education.

2. Unless the general assembly chooses to otherwise appropriate state funding, the appropriation of core funding increases in state funding to public four-year institutions of higher education shall be in accordance with the increase allocation model, subject to the parameters set forth in subsection 4 of this section. The increase allocation model shall be developed and revised as appropriate cooperatively by the public four-year institutions of higher education and the department of higher education and workforce development. The department of higher education and workforce development shall recommend the model to the coordinating board for higher education for its approval by October 31, 2014.

Terms Used In Missouri Laws 173.1540

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of the statutes, mean the section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other section is expressly designated in the reference. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
  • President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.
  • State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020

3. The core funding level for each public four-year institution of higher education shall initially be the appropriated amount for each institution for fiscal year 2015. Increases under subsection 4 of this section shall be incorporated into the core funding level annually in accordance with the increase allocation model starting with fiscal year 2016.

4. (1) The increase allocation model shall comply with the parameters of this subsection in allocating annual increases in core appropriations to public four-year institutions of higher education.

(2) Unless otherwise provided by the general assembly during the appropriations process, no more than ten percent of any increase in core appropriations shall be distributed to address inequitable state funding through any combination of the following:

(a) Determined on a per-student basis, as determined by calculating full-time equivalency or on such other basis as determined by the department and agreed upon by the institutions. To the extent inequities result from an institution’s performance on its performance funding measures adopted under section 173.1006, such inequities shall not be eligible for an allocation under this paragraph; and

(b) Distributed based on weighted full-time equivalent credit hours so as to provide enrollment, program offering, and mission sensitivity on an ongoing basis.

(3) Unless otherwise provided by the general assembly during the appropriations process, at least ninety percent of annual increases shall be distributed in accordance with the performance funding model adopted under section 173.1006.

5. The department of higher education and workforce development shall be responsible for evaluating the effectiveness of the increase allocation model and shall submit a report to the governor, the joint committee on education, the speaker of the house of representatives and the president pro tempore of the senate by October 31, 2019, and every four years thereafter.