19 Tex. Admin. Code § 13.505 - FAST Funding Formula

(a) Frequency of Disbursements. The Coordinating Board will provide each participating institution with a disbursement for each fall, spring, and summer semester upon the certification of the institution's eligible enrollments. The Coordinating Board will combine enrollment periods under this subsection when a semester includes more than one enrollment period (for example, a Summer 1 and a Summer 2 session).

(b) Disbursement Calculation. Each disbursement will equal the amount outlined in § 13.504 of this subchapter (relating to FAST Tuition Rate) for the relevant semester multiplied by the number of semester credit hours or equivalent in which students who met the eligibility criteria in § 13.503 of this subchapter (relating to Eligible Students) were enrolled in dual credit courses at the institution for the relevant semester.

(c) Data Sources. The source of data for the disbursement calculation will be reports collected by Board staff and certified by the institution for the relevant semester which provide an eligible student's dual credit enrollment in semester credit hours or their equivalent and the student's Texas Student Data System (TSDS) unique identification number issued by the Texas Education Agency, combined with data regarding educationally disadvantaged students, as reported by the Texas Education Agency, unless otherwise provided by rule.

(d) Verification of Data. The Coordinating Board will share each semester's calculation with the participating institution for comment and verification prior to disbursement. The institution will be given ten business days, beginning the day of the notice's distribution, and excluding State holidays, to confirm that the calculation accurately reflects the data they submitted or to advise the Coordinating Board of any inaccuracies.

(e) True-Up. Upon receipt of attendance data for the full school year from the Texas Education Agency, the Coordinating Board will review all eligible students used in the calculation outlined in subsection (d) of this section to verify that those students were in attendance at the high school during the period of dual credit enrollment. If any student is identified as not having been in attendance in high school during the period of dual credit enrollment, then the Coordinating Board will calculate the amount of funding the institution received for that student's dual credit enrollment. The Coordinating Board shall reduce each institution's subsequent disbursement under subsection (a) of this section by the amount calculated in this subsection.

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19 Tex. Admin. Code § 13.505

Adopted by Texas Register, Volume 48, Number 36, September 8, 2023, TexReg 4929, eff. 9/1/2023 (EMERGENCY); Adopted by Texas Register, Volume 49, Number 02, January 12, 2024, TexReg 112, eff. 9/1/2023, exp. 2/27/2024 (Emergency); Amended by Texas Register, Volume 49, Number 06, February 9, 2024, TexReg 0674, eff. 2/15/2024