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