| 1 | 1 | | Session of 2023 |
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| 2 | 2 | | HOUSE BILL No. 2138 |
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| 3 | 3 | | By Committee on Education |
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| 5 | 5 | | AN ACT concerning education; relating to career technical education; |
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| 6 | 6 | | creating the career technical education credential and transition |
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| 7 | 7 | | incentive for employment success act; providing state aid to school |
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| 8 | 8 | | districts for students who obtain a credential; establishing the career |
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| 9 | 9 | | technical education credential and transition incentive fund. |
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| 10 | 10 | | Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: |
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| 11 | 11 | | Section 1. (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the |
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| 12 | 12 | | career technical education credential and transition incentive for |
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| 13 | 13 | | employment success act. |
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| 14 | 14 | | (b) Subject to the availability of appropriations and within the limits |
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| 15 | 15 | | of any such appropriations, a school district that offers career technical |
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| 16 | 16 | | education and has students who obtain an approved career technical |
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| 17 | 17 | | education credential shall receive payments pursuant to this section. Each |
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| 18 | 18 | | school year, the state board of education shall determine the amount of |
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| 19 | 19 | | such payment to each school district as follows: |
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| 20 | 20 | | (1) Determine the number of students enrolled in the school district |
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| 21 | 21 | | who obtained an approved industry-sought career technical education |
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| 22 | 22 | | credential during the immediately preceding school year; |
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| 23 | 23 | | (2) determine the total cost of assessment for each such credential |
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| 24 | 24 | | obtained by such students in such school year; and |
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| 25 | 25 | | (3) multiply the amount calculated under paragraph (2) by 1.2. The |
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| 26 | 26 | | resulting product is the amount of payment the school district is to receive |
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| 27 | 27 | | in the school year. |
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| 28 | 28 | | (c) (1) On or before July 1, 2023, and each July 1 thereafter, the state |
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| 29 | 29 | | board of education shall conduct a survey of school districts on which |
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| 30 | 30 | | career technical education credentials each school district offers that |
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| 31 | 31 | | satisfies the definition of "industry-sought credential" under subsection (e). |
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| 32 | 32 | | (2) On or before July 31, 2023, and each July 31 thereafter, the state |
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| 33 | 33 | | board of education, after consultation with the secretary of labor, the |
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| 34 | 34 | | secretary of commerce and representatives of industries that recognize |
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| 35 | 35 | | career technical education credentials, shall approve a list of industry- |
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| 36 | 36 | | sought credentials. |
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| 37 | 37 | | (d) Payments shall be distributed to school districts at times |
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| 38 | 38 | | determined by the state board of education. The state board of education |
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| 39 | 39 | | shall certify to the director of accounts and reports the amount due each |
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| 76 | 76 | | school district, and the director of accounts and reports shall draw a |
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| 77 | 77 | | warrant on the state treasury payable to the treasurer of the school district. |
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| 78 | 78 | | Upon receipt of the warrant, the treasurer of the school district shall credit |
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| 79 | 79 | | the amount thereof to the career technical education fund of the school |
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| 80 | 80 | | district to be used for the purposes of such fund, except that, of the amount |
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| 81 | 81 | | credited to such fund, the school district shall expend such moneys first for |
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| 82 | 82 | | the cost of assessments for those credentials described in subsection (c). |
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| 83 | 83 | | (e) As used in this section, the term "industry-sought credential" |
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| 84 | 84 | | means a career technical education credential that is: |
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| 85 | 85 | | (1) Repeatedly referenced in job postings; and |
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| 86 | 86 | | (2) frequently referred to by employers in communications with |
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| 87 | 87 | | school districts as a career technical education credential that is in demand. |
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| 88 | 88 | | Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its |
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| 89 | 89 | | publication in the statute book. |
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