HB 4230 Summary

• Appropriates $414,719,000.00 for Michigan community colleges for fiscal year 2019-2020, with $325,473,400.00 designated for operations funding distributed among 28 community colleges.

• Allocates $73,100,000.00 for participating community colleges' retirement system contributions and $12,212,000.00 for offsetting normal cost contribution rates.

• Establishes performance funding formula distributing 30% based on base appropriations, 25% on weighted student contact hours, and remaining percentages on performance improvement, completion metrics, administrative costs, local strategic value, and support for lowest-taxable-value colleges.

• Requires community colleges to post budget transparency information on websites, maintain campus safety resources, report tuition and fee data, and participate in the Michigan Transfer Network to receive performance funding payments.

• Implements tuition restraint requirement limiting 2019-2020 resident student tuition and fee increases to 115% of the higher education price index (3.2% or $128.00 minimum) as condition for receiving performance funding.