1. State Technical College of Missouri shall be under the oversight of the coordinating board for higher education. The institution shall also be subject to oversight by the state board of education to the extent it serves as an area vocational technical school. Beginning in the first full state fiscal year subsequent to the approval of State Technical College of Missouri’s plan by the coordinating board submitted pursuant to section 178.637, the state of Missouri shall, subject to appropriation, provide the funds necessary to provide the staff, cost of operation, and payment of all new capital improvements commencing with that fiscal year.

2. All funds designated for the institution shall be included in the coordinating board’s budget request as provided in chapter 173, except that vocational technical education reimbursements shall continue to be requested through the state board of education.

Terms Used In Missouri Laws 178.638

  • 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.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • 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. Unless the general assembly chooses to otherwise appropriate state funding, beginning with fiscal year 2016, at least ninety percent of any annual increase in core funding over the previous year shall be distributed in accordance with the performance funding measures under section 173.1006.