•     The Texas Association of Community Colleges worked with Governor Perry and Representative Burt Solomons to reach a compromise on the issue of proportionality. With this compromise the Governor has agreed to sign HB 2083 and accept this approach in the General Appropriations Act.

•     The agreement would define the eligibility of community college employees to receive state funding for health insurance based on whether an employee’s salaries is eligible to paid for out of state general revenue regardless of the source of funds.

•     The agreement would link increases in the number of group health insurance eligible employees to increases in student enrollment growth.

•     The House version of SB 1 included language from HB 2083 (as filed), which defines in the Insurance Code the eligibility of employees to receive state funding for group health insurance.

•     Now that this agreement has been reached, TACC requests that the Conference Committee on SB 1 adopt the House version on community college benefits including the Article IX rider, and conforming language in the community college bill pattern, into the conference committee report.