Relating to a study on measurable outcomes for certain transfer students for performance tier funding under the public junior college state finance program.

Contracts

• SIS Vendor Agreements: Review contracts with Student Information System providers. You must ensure your system can isolate and report on "origin of transfer" fields specifically for university-to-junior-college transfers.
• Data Sharing Agreements: Public Junior Colleges and General Academic Teaching Institutions must review inter-institutional agreements to ensure transcript data regarding "prior credit hours attempted" can be shared for state reporting without violating FERPA.

Hiring/Training

• Registrar Training: Admissions staff must be trained to flag incoming transfer students who have less than 30 credit hours from a university, as the Fiscal Note identifies this specific group as the funding target.
• Advising Staff: Advisors must be trained to track service utilization (tutoring, counseling) specifically for this cohort to justify the "cost of services" component of the study.

Reporting & Record-Keeping

• Cohort Segmentation: You must create a new reporting tag for students who were *previously enrolled* at a general academic teaching institution.
• Outcome Tracking: The law requires you to correlate this specific cohort with "measurable outcomes" (academic success or workforce placement). You must maintain distinct records for these students separate from the general transfer population.

Fees & Costs

• Administrative Costs: Expect internal costs related to software configuration and manual transcript auditing to identify historical data for the study.
• Revenue Opportunity: The LBB Fiscal Note estimates a potential funding rate of $3,500 per weighted transfer outcome starting in the 2026-2027 biennium if the study leads to formula changes.