82R16528 PAM-D
By: Howard of Travis H.B. No. 1497
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1497:
By: Castro C.S.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(d), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(d) The State Board for Career and Technology Education may
allocate funds appropriated to the board by the legislature 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. At least 40 percent of any federal funds allocated by the
State Board for Career and Technology Education under this
subsection must be allocated to support career and technical
education at the postsecondary or adult level.
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 expiration of the Texas State
Plan for Career and Technical Education, 2008-2013.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.