Identical to H 252, filed 3/8/11.

Directs the UNC Board of Governors (Board), with assistance from General Administration, to study and examine the enrollment change funding formula currently used to predict the university system's enrollment growth and future funding needs. Explains that the study should evaluate possible formula modifications to simplify and standardize the projections and funding requests. Enumerates five issues to be included in the study. Directs the Board to develop a revised enrollment change funding model, present the model to the General Assembly by June 30, 2011, and implement the approved model beginning in the 2012-13 fiscal year.
Requires the Board to create policies and procedures for developing campus enrollment projections, calculating tuition offset, and calculating funding formula elements and cost factors. Also requires the Board to develop written criteria for granting "hold harmless" status. Directs the Board to consider recommendations found in a final report to the Joint Legislative Program Evaluation Oversight Committee (Committee), as specified. Instructs the Board to compile these created policies and procedures into a manual and present the manual to the Committee by January 1, 2012.
Directs the Board to develop a system to track and analyze enrollment and funding data from each campus in the university system and to produce an annual report on campus data including nine listed items. Directs the Board to report annually to specified committees. Codifies the previous directives in new GS 116-11(9a). Makes the first report due by January 1, 2012.
Amends GS 116-11(9)a1. to provide that enrollment change funding will be based on the performance of each constituent institution and will be contingent on the attainment of that institution's target, as determined by the Board. States that an institution will not receive enrollment change funding if it fails to achieve the target. Requires the Board to provide full documentation and justification of an enrollment change funding request, including hold harmless status requests, and other detailed information related to hold harmless status.
Directs the University of North Carolina General Administration to develop policies and procedures to guide performance-based funding by January 1, 2012. Provides additional details related to the directive and requires that the Board implement the funding approach by January 1, 2013.