2025 bills / H.B. 265
H.B. 265 Higher Education Strategic Reinvestment (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
The bill requires each public college and university to create a plan that shifts money from lower-priority programs and divisions to programs it deems worth more investment, and to phase out reduced programs over three years. It also limits how many credit hours a school can require beyond general education, directs the Utah Board of Higher Education to create a process for conditional approval of three-year degrees, and requires reports to legislative appropriations committees.
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Official description
- defines terms
- requires certain reporting to and a study by the Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee
- provides for disbursement of certain reinvestment funds that are dedicated to a given degree-granting institution for reallocation to certain strategic investments under certain circumstances
- requires each degree-granting institution to create a strategic reinvestment plan to reallocate funding from certain programs and divisions of the institution to certain programs and divisions that merit additional investment
- requires the Utah Board of Higher Education (board) to report to the Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee and the Executive Appropriations Subcommittee regarding each institution's strategic reinvestment plan and execution of the plan over the upcoming three fiscal years
- authorizes declining use of reinvestment funds to phase out reduced or eliminated programs or divisions of institutions over the upcoming three fiscal years
- limits the number of credit hours a degree-granting institution may require between general education and degree-specific requirements
- requires the board to develop a process to grant conditional approval of accelerated three-year degrees
- allows the board to transfer certain appropriations as an exception to the prohibition on line-item transfers in the Budgetary Procedures Act
- coordinates with H.B. 51, Higher Education Reporting Amendments, to address subcommittee reports
- makes technical and conforming changes
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Every vote
- 12 yes, 0 no, 4 absentHouse Education Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Jan 31, 2025Who voted how
- 10 yes, 3 no, 3 absentHouse Education Committee: vote to approve it · Jan 31, 2025Who voted how
- 63 yes, 9 no, 3 absentFinal House vote · Feb 4, 2025Who voted how
- 6 yes, 0 no, 1 absentSenate Education Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Feb 19, 2025Who voted how
- 6 yes, 1 noSenate Education Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 19, 2025Who voted how
- 15 yes, 5 no, 9 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 26, 2025Who voted how
- 21 yes, 5 no, 3 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how
- 65 yes, 9 no, 1 absentHouse vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Mar 5, 2025Who voted how