ENGROSSED
H. B. 4562
(By Delegates Stemple, Mathews, Harrison, Paxton,
Louisos, Fox and CanterburyDelegates Name)
(Originating in the Committee on EducationCommittee)
[February 20Month and Day, 2002]
A BILL to amend article fourteen, chapter eighteen-bBill Title of the code
of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section
ten, relating to directing higher education policy Title Language
commission to conduct certain studies and report findings
and recommendations to certain legislative committees at
certain dates.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article fourteen, chapter eighteen-bEnacting Section of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended,
be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section
ten, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 14. MISCELLANEOUS.
§18B-14-10. Directing higher education policy commission to
conduct studies; report during January, 2003, legislative
interims.
(a) The higher education policy commission is hereby
directed to study and report its findings and recommendations to
the joint committee on government and finance, the legislative
oversight commission on education accountability and the joint
standing committees on finance and education during the January,
two thousand three, legislative interims on the following
matters:
(1) The capacity for delivering post-secondary education
services in the state, including public and private institutions,
at the various levels including post-secondary certificate and
skill development services for business and industry, two-year
technical and two-year transfer degrees, baccalaureate degrees,
Master's degrees, and Doctoral and professional degrees;
(2) A comparison of the capacity for delivering post-
secondary education services relative to the demand for such
services in the various levels projected over the next five years
and the next ten years; and
(3) An analysis of measures to align capacity with projected
demand, including recommendations for specific institutions where appropriate, including, but not limited to:
(i) The consolidation, merger, closure or transition to
community college status of certain institutions;
(ii) The elimination of unnecessary duplication;
(iii) The refinement and restriction of institutional
missions;
(iv) The role of private institutions in meeting the needs
of state students and the state for post-secondary education
services, and the appropriate recognition of this role in the
higher education policies of the state;
(v) The economics of the joint use of public education
technical and adult facilities and post-secondary community and
technical colleges; and
(vi) The uniform and unconditional transferability of
student course credits among state institutions of higher
education.
(b) The higher education policy commission is hereby
directed to review its current policies for attaining peer equity
among the state institutions of higher education and to report
its findings with respect to the progress being made toward this
goal and any recommendations to the joint committee on government
and finance, the legislative oversight commission on education accountability and the joint standing committees on finance and
education during the January, two thousand three, legislative
interims.
(c) The higher education policy commission is hereby
directed to study and report its findings and recommendations to
the joint committee on government and finance, the legislative
oversight commission on education accountability and the joint
standing committees on finance and education during the January,
two thousand three, legislative interims on standardized methods
and criteria for determining salary levels for personnel employed
in the offices of the policy commission and the state
institutions of higher education in chief administrative,
advisory, directorate, and other policy and chief of operations
level positions and their deputies and executive assistants who
are exempt from established salary schedules for faculty and
classified staff. The report shall include the current salary
levels for the various categories of positions and the rationale
and criteria utilized in establishing the current salary levels.
(d) The higher education policy commission shall make status
reports on the studies provided for in this section to the
legislative oversight commission on education accountability at
its request.