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Committee hears hours-long debate on bill to centralize funds for vacant higher-ed positions
Summary
The House Education Committee held an extended hearing on House Bill 11-61, an amended proposal to require institutions to centralize funds for vacant higher-education FTE positions and report uses to the legislative budget section.
Representative Eric Murphy presented an amended version of House Bill 11-61, which would require institutions under the State Board of Higher Education to list newly created and vacant full-time equivalent (FTE) positions annually and place appropriated salary and benefit funds for those vacancies into a central institutional pool for hiring needs.
Murphy told the committee the amendment retains the bill’s transparency goals while giving institutions flexibility: funds would be reported to the legislative budget section and could be used for salaries or operational needs, but all transfers and uses would be reported. He said the change aims to improve oversight and to speed hiring so that institutions can fill vacant positions—including faculty, administrators and staff—more quickly.
The sponsor emphasized hiring…
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