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From the ECS State Policy Database
2000 State Policies / Activities

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The following summary includes policies enacted in 2000. This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format. To view the documents, click on the blue triangle next to the topic of interest. To view all, press the button located at the top labeled "Expand All."

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- Career/Technical Education
NYSigned into law 10/2000P-12Clarifies the definition of work activities to include certain work-study and internships.
Title: A.B. 8475
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

CAVetoed 09/2000P-12
Postsec.
Establishes a task force, convened by the Governor, to assess and report short-term and long-range recommendations for improving career technical education. Provides requirements for model career and technical education curriculum content standards. Requires the California Postsecondary Education Commission to convene a work group relating to the problems associated with recognition and weight to be given to those courses, and would require a report to the Legislature.
Title: A.B. 2087
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

CASigned into law 09/2000P-12
Community College
Makes legislative findings and declarations regarding the importance of preparing pupils for an economy that demands strong academic and career skills. Creates the Interagency Partnership for School-to-Career Programs as a formal collaboration among the State Department of Education, the Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges and the Health and Human Services Agency, for the purpose of administering a grant program to local entities, as specified.
Title: A.B. 1873
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

CASigned into law 08/2000P-12
Postsec.
Includes within the definition of short-term career training an educational service represented to lead to, or offered for the purpose of preparing a student for, employment as a private security guard or private patrol operator, and meeting prescribed criteria, including but not limited to, a total charge to the student of a specified amount.
Title: A.B. 1898
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

AKSigned into law 06/2000P-12
Postsec.
It is the intent of the legislature that the Alaska Human Resource Investment Council undergo an internal reassessment and reorganization to minimize the number of members of the council and to improve its ability to efficiently and effectively serve as the state's primary planning and coordinating entity for vocational and technical education.
Title: S.B. 289
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

DESigned into law 06/2000P-12Requires that a certain percentage of the Occupational-Vocational Division II - All Other Costs funds shall be allocated to the school that generates these funds and expended to support the State approved occupational-vocational courses and programs at that school.
Title: S.B. 385
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

HIVetoed 06/2000P-12Amends powers of the School to Work Executive Council; places the Council administratively within the Department of Education; appropriates funds for the Council.
Title: H.B. 2280
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

MISigned into law 06/2000P-12
Postsec.
Provides a wider variety of options to high school pupils by encouraging and enabling students to enroll in career and technical preparation programs at eligible nonprofit postsecondary educational institutions. Provides for dual enrollment options for career and technical preparation programs; establishes these programs for certain students in state schools; prescribes certain duties of public schools and certain postsecondary institutions; prescribes certain powers and duties of certain state departments, officials, and agencies; repeals acts and parts of acts.
Title: H.B. 5534
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

NHSigned into law 06/2000P-12Fulfills the requirement of having the approval of the State Legislature in order to include certain secondary vocational education programs in the State's Unified Vocational Education Plan by authorizing the inclusion of the relevant secondary vocational educational programs in the State's unified plan; specifies certain membership changes on the local workforce investment boards.
Title: S.B. 431
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

NHSigned into law 06/2000P-12Establishes requirements for State funding of renovation and expansion of regional vocational education programs.
Title: H.B. 413
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

NJSigned into law 06/2000P-12Exempts minors from child labor laws by authorizing them to participate in educational programs in science sponsored by private sector.
Title: S.B. 987
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

OKSigned into law 06/2000Postsec.Sets budget limits for the Oklahoma Board for Private Vocational Schools (salary of director, number of staff, etc.) and requires evaluation.
Title: S.B. 928
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

ALSigned into law 05/2000Postsec.Relates to viability and non-viability of programs of instruction as reviewed by the Alabama Commission on Higher Education; provides that students completing certain programs of instruction in two-year technical and vocational colleges shall be deemed graduates for the purposes of determining viability standards of the program.
Title: S.B. 356
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

IASigned into law 05/2000P-12
Postsec.
Relates to the accelerated career education program; provides a tax credit from withholding; creates an accelerated career education education grant program and fund; relates to the transfer of job training withholding to the workforce development fund account; provides an effective date.
Title: S.B. 2439
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

OKSigned into law 05/2000P-12
Postsec.
Changes the official name of the board known as the State Board of Vocational and Technical Education to the State Board of Career and Technology Education, and changes the name of the State Department of Vocational and Technical Education to the State Department of Career and Technology Education.
Title: H.B. 2128
Source: 2000 Legislative Summary, Oklahoma

AZVetoed 04/2000P-12Appropriates an unspecified amount of money to the Department of Education to fund a vocational technical education demonstration project in an existing structure; appropriates money from the general fund in fiscal year 2000-01 for one-time capital funding.
Title: H.B. 2285
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

MSVetoed 04/2000P-12Authorizes local school boards to establish a vocational and technical education track as an alternative to college preparatory curriculum; provides that vocational students complete core educational requirements.
Title: H.B. 1409
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

IASigned into law 03/2000P-12Relates to the certified school to career program.
Title: H.B. 2179
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

KYSigned into law 03/2000P-12Establishes the Governor's Council on Vocational Education; establishes the Kentucky Job Training Coordinating Council; replaces the Kentucky Job Training Coordinating Council with the Office of Training and Reemployment within the Cabinet for Workforce Development.
Title: H.B. 610
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

WASigned into law 03/2000P-12Directs the Superintendent of Public Instruction to maintain support for state-wide coordination for career and technical student organizations by providing program staff support that is available to assist in meeting the needs of career and technical student organizations and their members and students. http://www.leg.wa.gov/sl/1999-00/2531_sl.pdf
Title: H.B. 2531
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

NMSigned into law 02/2000P-12Provides for vocational education in public schools.
Title: S.B. 390
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

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