82R7937 PAM-D
By: Howard of Travis H.B. No. 1497
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the allocation of certain federal career and technical
education funds.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 7.109, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsections (e) and (f) to read
as follows:
(d) The State Board for Career and Technology Education may
allocate funds appropriated to the board by the legislature and
shall allocate as provided by Subsection (f) [or] federal funds
received by the board under the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical
[Vocational] Education Act of 2006 (20 U.S.C. Section 2301 et seq.)
or other federal law to an institution or program approved by the
State Board of Education, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating
Board, or another state agency specified by law.
(e) For purposes of allocating federal funds described by
Subsection (d), the State Board for Career and Technology Education
shall determine the relative student utilization of approved career
and technology education programs under Subsection (d). To assist
the State Board for Career and Technology Education in making that
determination, for each semester of each school year or academic
year, as applicable:
(1) the agency shall calculate the number of full-time
equivalent students enrolled at the secondary level in an approved
career and technology education program; and
(2) the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
shall calculate the number of full-time equivalent students
enrolled at the postsecondary level in an approved career and
technology education program.
(f) The agency and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating
Board shall, at the time and in the manner prescribed by the State
Board for Career and Technology Education, provide the calculations
of student utilization of approved career and technology education
programs under Subsection (e) to the State Board for Career and
Technology Education. After receiving the calculations under this
subsection, the State Board for Career and Technology Education
shall determine the relative student utilization of approved career
and technology education programs and allocate funding to support
career and technology education at the secondary level and at the
postsecondary level in proportion to that relative student
utilization determination.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section
7.109, Education Code, applies beginning with an allocation of
federal funds made on or after the effective date of this Act,
except that the State Board for Career and Technology Education, in
making an allocation on or after that date, may allocate the funds
in a manner that deviates from the requirements of Section 7.109,
Education Code, as amended by this Act, to the extent necessary to
comply with a grant awarded or an agreement entered into before the
effective date of this Act under the Texas State Plan for Career and
Technical Education, 2008-2013, or to comply with federal law.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.