| State |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
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 TX | Adopted 09/2012 | P-12 | Establishes a competitive procurement process for adult education service providers in accordance with the Texas Education Code (TEC), s.29.2535, as added by Senate Bill (SB) 1, 82nd Texas Legislature, First Called Session, 2011. Pages 13-16 of 28: http://www.sos.state.tx.us/texreg/pdf/backview/0914/0914adop.pdf
Title: 19 TAC 89.1301
Source: www.sos.state.tx.us
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| LA | Passed 05/2012 | P-12 | Urges and requests the board of supervisors of community and technical colleges and the state board of elementary and secondary education jointly to study the feasibility of granting a Louisiana high school diploma to successful completers of adult education programs that meet state standards and to report their findings and recommendations at least 60 days prior to the 2013 regular session. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=804499
Title: H.C.R. 95
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| FL | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12
Postsec. | From final bill analysis: Provides that a full-time student, co-enrolled in a K-12 education program and an adult general education program, may be reported for funding for two courses per year in an adult education program in Fiscal Year 2012-2013. Limits enrollment to core coursework, and only for credit recovery and dropout prevention purposes. Only applies for students who do not have a pattern of excessive absenteeism or habitual truancy or a history of disruptive behavior in school. Bill text (pages 66-67 of 72): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5201er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Final bill analysis (page 16 of 22): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h5201z.HEAS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5201 - Funding for ABE and K-12 Education Student
Source: myfloridahouse.gov
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| ME | Signed into law 03/2012 | Postsec. | Revises the definition of "adult education" by describing what services must be offered in order to receive state subsidy. Establishes career pathways services as part of adult education, removes provisions concerning adult career and technical education classes that are outside the scope of adult education funding and removes obsolete provisions regarding adult education subsidy reimbursement. Confirms the State's commitment to serving adult learners with disabilities under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Section 504 of the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=SP0617&item=1&snum=125
Title: S.P. 617
Source: www.mainelegislature.org
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2012 | Community College | Authorizes a program of adult basic education at each state community and technical college campus where developmental education services are provided. This approach to providing adult basic education links the programs students study under with developmental education and creates a simpler, clearer pathway for adults to enter college.
Transfers title to certain property to state board. Under certain circumstances, State board may pay transportation of any certified unemployed person participating in any vocational program.
Establishes West Virginia Earn a Degree Graduate Early initiative (EDGE) to connect public schools with higher education to prepare public high school students for success in the workplace or postsecondary education and to provide the opportunity for these students to earn community and technical college credit free of charge for certain courses. EDGE's goals include increasing postsecondary enrollment.
Creates the Collaborative Degree Completion Program to increase the number of West Virginians who hold or can earn a college credential and increase the education and technical skills of the states' workforce.
Requires certain agreements between community and technical college consortia, career and technical centers and public high schools to cooperatively deliver services effectively and efficiently where needed most.
Clarifies duties of community and technical consortia planning districts and specifies certain accountability procedures.
Defines programs of study and directs consortia to focus on identifying and providing student programs of study leading to placement in high demand, high wage occupations.
http://www.legis.state.wv.us/bill_status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb436%20intr.htm&yr=2012&sesstype=RS&i=436
Title: S.B. 436
Source: www.legis.state.wv.us
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2011 | P-12 | From bill summary: Authorizes the governing board of a school district to charge a fee for a class in English and citizenship for foreigners until July 1, 2015. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0151-0200/ab_189_bill_20111008_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 189 - Fee for Class in English and Citizenship
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| TX | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Directs the state education agency to use a competitive procurement process to award a contract to a service provider of an adult education program. Directs the agency, not later than August 31, 2012, to adopt rules to provide for a competitive procurement process to award contracts to service providers of adult education programs.
Pages 177-178 of 263: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/821/billtext/pdf/SB00001F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: S.B. 1
Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| CT | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Specifies that a student who has been expelled for the first time and is at least 16 years old is not required to withdraw from regular public school to attend adult education as part of an alternative educational opportunity during the expulsion. Allows such an expelled student to enroll in an adult education program without the approval of his or her school principal (that approval is still required for students who have not been expelled). http://www.cga.ct.gov/2011/ACT/PA/2011PA-00126-R00HB-06433-PA.htm
Title: H.B. 6433
Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12
Postsec. | Directs the Texas Education Agency, in consultation with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, to (1) review the standardized assessment mechanism for assessing all adult education program participants who need literacy instruction, adult basic education (ABE), or secondary education leading to an adult high school diploma or the equivalent and (2) recommend any changes necessary to align the assessment with college placement exams, to allow for a student's proper placement in an ABE course or to provide the student with the proper developmental or English as a second language coursework, as appropriate. Pages 2-3 of 8: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/HB03468F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: H.B. 3468 - Placement in Adult Education Programs
Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2011 | Postsec. | From Legislative Budget Committee Summary:
Coenrollment in Public Schools and Adult Education Programs
Prohibits funding for coenrollment in public schools and adult general education programs, except that for the 2011-2012 fiscal year students may enroll in core courses for credit recovery or dropout prevention for up to two courses. Provides that high school students are exempt from the payment of block tuition for general adult education programs.
Facilities
Expands the class size reduction lottery bond program to include other educational facilities. Suspends temporarily the state match for facilities and operating challenge grant programs for colleges and universities, effective July 1, 2011. Provides that existing eligible donations will remain eligible for future match and that the suspension may be removed once $200 million of the grant backlog has been matched. Allows a university board of trustees to expend carry-forward balances from prior year operational appropriations on legislatively approved fixed capital outlay projects authorized for the establishment of a new campus.
Finance
Streamlines library operations through consolidation and joint purchasing. Requires creation of a union catalog for higher education. Requires the Florida College System Council of Presidents to develop and recommend an equitable funding formula for the distribution of certain state funds to the college system institutions. Provides for the use of a funding formula to ensure equitable distribution of district workforce funds. Provides a $200,000 limit on the amount of state funds that may be paid for salaries of college and university presidents and administrative employees. Terminates the University Concurrency Trust Fund.
Finanical Aid/Scholarships
Increases the Florida Medallion Scholarship test scores in 2013-2014, from 1050 to 1170 for SAT, including the applicable home school test scores. Increases or establishes required community service hours for Bright Futures applicants. Requires applicants for Bright Futures, and certain other programs to submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid prior to disbursement of funds. Prioritizes state student financial aid to the neediest (Pell eligible) students for the Florida Work Experience Program and the First Generation in College Program.
Northwest Regional Data Center
Designates the Northwest Regional Data Center as a primary data center.
Student Enrollment Pilot Program
Authorizes a spring and summer term student enrollment pilot program at the University of Florida for the purpose of aligning student enrollment and the availability of instructional facilities. Authorizes Bright Futures scholarships in the summer for these students.
Transient Student Admission
Authorizes the implementation of a transient student admission application process through the Florida Academic Counseling Tracking for Students system to include admissions, readmissions, financial aid, and transfer of credit functions. Authorizes a fee of $5 to support the system.
Tuition
Provides an exemption from the 30 percent need-based expenditure requirement from the tuition differential fee if the university has covered the entire tuition and fee costs of all resident students who are eligible for need-based aid. Authorizes alternative documentation for tuition fee waivers for Purple Heart veterans. Increases the tuition surcharge for excess hours to 100 percent in excess of 115 percent of the credit hours required for a degree. Requires a block tuition and corresponding out-of-state fee for students enrolled in adult general education courses. Removes fee exemptions for certain students and requires residency of students to be documented. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-063.pdf
Title: S.B. 2150
Source: http://laws.flrules.org
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12
Postsec. | Requires the department of education, the Board of Trustees of state institutions of higher learning and the state board for community and junior colleges to study and develop a comprehensive report and recommendations for the establishment of an adult high school diploma. Provides for certain legislative members and a gubernatorial appointement to serve on the study panel for the establishment of an adult high school diploma.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2011/pdf/HB/1100-1199/HB1163SG.pdf
Title: H.B. 1163
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Expands the range of organizations that are allowed to administer adult basic education programs to include a district, community college district, or accredited tribal college, public library, community-based organization, or a consortium of those organizations located in Montana.
http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2011/billpdf/HB0421.pdf
Title: H.B. 421
Source: http://data.opi.mt.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2010 | P-12 | Adds Section 44251.2, which provides that a credential, permit, certificate or other document that is lawfully issued by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing remains in force in accordance with existing laws and regulations, and is exempt from new laws and regulations, unless sections of the education code are specifically amended to the contrary. Revises Section 44260.2 relating to minimum requirements for the preliminary adult education teaching credential, to distinguish between requirements for academic and nonacademic subjects. Revises Section 44260.3, to recast the minimum requirements for the 5-year clear
designated subjects adult education teaching credential. Repeals Section 44260.8, which includes health education in the clear designated subjects teaching credential, and computer technology in the teaching credential for vocational education or adult education. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_1351-1400/ab_1374_bill_20100706_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 1374
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12
Community College | Students who are 16 to 18 years old and are enrolled in an adult education program shall be considered to be in compliance with the school attendance provisions. Defines "effective" adult education program. Eliminate the division of adult and community education within the Department of Education and transfers the responsibility to the Board of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges. Outlines responsibilities for adult education programs by the Board of Supervisors.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722559
Title: H.B. 1055
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/
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| TX | Adopted 06/2010 | P-12 | Primarily from Texas Register:
Amends provisions to accommodate the 2009 General Appropriations Act (SB 1), which requires that a new funding formula be allocated based on need for persons beyond the age of compulsory attendance who have not received a high school diploma and paid based on student performance and contact hours. (Statutory authority for rule action relating to adult education remains with the state board of education.) Rules relating to definitions, use of funds, essential program components, and the advisory committee are amended. New rules are added to address the new funding structure to be implemented beginning with school year 2010-2011, including allocation of funds, payment of funds and match requirements. New rules are also added to establish provisions relating to potential grantees, revocation and recovery of funds.
The proposed rule actions would reflect changes resulting from the General Appropriations Act, Senate Bill (SB) 1, Article III, Rider 46, 81st Texas Legislature, 2009. Adopted as published in the April 2, 2010 Texas Register (pp 10-13 of 43): http://www.sos.state.tx.us/texreg/pdf/backview/0402/0402prop.pdf
Title: 19 TAC 89.21, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35
Source: www.sos.state.tx.us
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12
Community College
Postsec. | Eliminates the division of adult and community education within the Dept. of Education and transfers the responsibility for adult education programs from Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) to Louisiana Board of Supervisors for Community and Technical Colleges (LCTCS).
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=711341
Title: S.B. 297
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us
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| NH | Rule Adoption 02/2010 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Allows students enrolled in day high school programs to enroll in adult high school programs. Increases the number of credits needed for graduation from an adult high school to 20. Clarifies the awarding of credit through correspondence courses and completion of course competencies. Provides local programs with the authority to set attendance policies and to move the approval process for GED testing of 16 of 17 years olds from the Department of Education to local school districts or the agency overseeing a student's home schooling program.
Title: Ed 700
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NJ | Signed into law 01/2010 | Postsec.
Community College | Dedicates a percentage of funds from the Supplemental Workforce Fund for Basic Skills to the State Community College Consortium for Workforce and Economic Development, a part of the Council of County Colleges, to provide basic skills training to qualified displaced, disadvantaged or employed workers.
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2008/Bills/A4500/4325_R1.PDF
Title: A.B. 4325
Source: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us
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| NJ | Signed into law 01/2010 | Postsec.
Community College | Establishes NJ PLACE program to facilitate college credit for registered apprenticeship programs.
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2008/Bills/A4500/4327_R1.PDF
Title: A.B. 4327
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Adopted 07/2009 | P-12 | Changes the percentage and the criteria for which funds are allocated to local Adult Education programs consistent with findings from the state legislative audit of the adult education program. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/bulletin/2009/20090515/32647.htm
Title: R277-733
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WI | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Eliminates provision that no adult literacy grant may exceed $10,000. Page 468 of 692: http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/acts/09Act28.pdf
Title: A.B. 75
Source: www.legis.state.wi.us
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| KY | Signed into law 06/2009 | Postsec. | Establishes ""Metropolitan College" as a nonprofit consortium that includes educational institutions in the Commonwealth and the qualified taxpayer (businesses) as members. Provides the purpose of Metropolitan College is to provide postsecondary educational opportunities to employees of the qualified taxpayer as part of a combined work and postsecondary education program. Offers a qualified taxpayer a tax credit for tuition and other educational expenses incurred by a student participating in the Metropolitan College, on behalf of employees of the qualified corporation, for up to 2,800 employees each year. Pages 45-47 of 259: http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09SS/HB3/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 3A - Section 19
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12
Postsec. | Establishes the Interagency Literacy Council for the study, promotion and enhancement of literacy in the state. Specifies that one of the duties of the council is to study current research to assess the adult literacy needs in this state. Directs the council to develop a comprehensive statewide action plan for the improvement of literacy, including a recommended timeline for implementation. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB04328F.pdf
Title: H.B. 4328
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Establishes the Jobs and Education for Texans (JET) grant program and fund to award grants to public junior colleges and public technical institutes, and to eligible nonprofit organizations to:
(1) Develop or support nonprofit organizations' programs that prepare low-income students for careers in high-demand occupations. Eligible programs must help students prepare for, apply to and enroll in a public junior college/technical institute, provide matching funds, and demonstrate that they have achieved or will achieve above average developmental course completion rates, persistence rates, and 3-year degree or certificate completion rates among participating students.
(2) Defray the start-up costs of new career and technical education programs in high-demand occupations
(3) Provide scholarships for students who demonstrate financial need and who are enrolled in training programs for high-demand occupations.
In awarding grants to public junior colleges and public technical institutes for the development of new career and technical education courses or programs, provides the comptroller may consider whether the course or program offers new or expanded dual credit career and technical educational opportunities in public high schools.
Directs the comptroller to conduct a study of the feasibility of basing part of all public postsecondary technical training program funding on the program's economic benefit to the state, and of estimating the additional tax revenue from employers generated by the ability of public junior colleges/technical institutes/state colleges to prepare students for employment fields for which there is employer demand. Requires the comptroller to report to the lieutenant governor and speaker of the house by January 2011 for legislative action based on the results of the study.
Defines "green jobs" as jobs in the field of renewable energy or energy efficiency. Establishes the Green Job Skills Development Fund and Training Program to support the implementation and expansion of green job skills training programs. Specifies that an eligible training program must be hosted by a regional partnership designed to implement training programs that lead trainees to economic self-sufficiency and career pathways. Requires regional partnerships to include at a minimum a postsecondary institution; chamber of commerce, local workforce agency, local employer, or other public or private participating entity; economic development authority; and community or faith-based nonprofit organization that works with one or more targeted populations.
Specifies criteria that eligible green job skills training programs must meet. Requires programs receiving grants to target specified groups of individuals for training, including low-income workers, unemployed youth and adults, individuals who did not complete high school, or other underserved sectors of the workforce in high poverty areas. Provides that a training program may use grant funds for support services, including basic skills, literacy, GED, English as a second language, and job readiness training, career guidance, and referral services. Establishes grant application procedures. Specifies training programs the comptroller must give preference to, and requires 20% of funds to be reserved for job skill training programs that serve the unemployed and those with incomes at or below 200% of the poverty level. Establishes grantee reporting requirements, and requires the comptroller to report biennially on submitted information to the governor, lieutenant governor and speaker of the house. Directs the comptroller to adopt standards for a green job skills training program awarded a grant.
H.B. 1935: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB01935F.pdf
H.B. 3 (pages 169-174): http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB00003F.pdf
Title: H.B. 1935 and H.B. 3, Section 64
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| OR | Signed into law 05/2009 | Postsec.
Community College | Directs State Board of Higher Education and community college district boards to permit Oregon residents 65 years of age or older to audit courses without paying instructional fees at any state institution of higher education or community college. Chapter 344
http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measpdf/hb2000.dir/hb2011.en.pdf
Title: H.B. 2011
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2009 | Postsec. | Requires the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability shall submit a report on workforce education programs for occupations not included on specific occupation lists and on funding options, etc. Also provides for a standard high school diploma designation for completed industry certifications.
http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb1616er.html&Directory=session/2009/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 1616
Source: http://www.flsenate.gov
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| NE | Signed into law 04/2009 | Community College | Provides for vocational training for public assistance recipients; provides that for creating the self-sufficiency contract and meeting the applicant's work activity requirement, an applicant shall be allowed to engage in vocational training that leads to an associate degree, a diploma, or a certificate for a minimum of twenty hours per week for up to thirty-six months. From the fiscal note: This bill would allow the work activity requirements for receiving Aid to Dependent Children assistance to include engaging in vocational training that leads to an associate's degree, a diploma or a certificate for a minimum of 20 hours per week for up to 36 months. This provision terminates on September 30, 2012. Required work activities are outlined in the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Act (TANF). In addition to outlining the scope of work activities, states must meet a work participation rate of 50%. Failure to the meet the work participation rate could result in federal penalties being imposed on the state.
Federal law caps vocational training at 12 months. States may exceed the 12-month federal cap, but the individuals who are in
vocational training longer than 12 months do not count towards meeting the federal work participation rate. Based on current work
participation rates and the sunset date, this provision would not put the state's work participation rates at less than 50%.
http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Slip/LB458.pdf
Title: L.B. 458
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Adopted 11/2008 | P-12 | Updates and align state and federal laws and regulations pertaining to adult education programs. Adds provisions regarding the qualifications of adult education teachers. Deletes references to adult education diplomas. Specifies that adult education must provide a program that allows students to transition between sites in a seamless manner.
Directs the state superintendent of public instruction or designee to represent Adult Education programs on the Department of Workforce Services State Council as a voting member. Directs adult education programs to participate on or establish and maintain a local interagency advisory council consisting at a minimum of specified partner agencies. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/code/r277/r277-733.htm
Title: R277-733
Source: www.rules.utah.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2008 | P-12
Community College | Authorizes school districts to claim and expend a percentage of their adult block entitlement for various adult education programs if approved by the Superintendent. Requires a district to maintain specified accountability mechanisms for those programs, including maintaining documentation of the hours of student attendance required for apportionment purposes. Requires an application for adult education innovation and alternative instructional delivery to include methods of maintaining student data. Chapter 655
http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm
Title: A.B. 1163
Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov
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| CT | Signed into law 06/2008 | Postsec.
Community College | Establishes an adult literacy board as a standing committee of the state Employment and Training Commission to review and advise the commission on workforce investment and adult literacy services.
http://www.cga.ct.gov/2008/ACT/Pa/pdf/2008PA-00163-R00SB-00465-PA.pdf
Title: S.B. 465
Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov/
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| VT | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12
Community College | Relates to economic and workforce development.
Section 11 of this bill (The Adult technical education; workforce education and training; report) requires the commissioner of education to:
(1) Outline and review the current method or methods by which tuition is paid for students enrolled in secondary schools ("secondary students") to attend regional technical center programs.
(2) Consider and propose potential solutions to any barriers preventing, discouraging, or failing to encourage secondary students to attend regional technical center programs, including scheduling issues, availability of classes outside the traditional school day and academic year, and financial disincentives.
(3) Outline and review the current method or methods by which the cost of adults entering programs at a regional technical center is funded, both for adults who have a high school diploma and for those who do not.
(4) Consider and propose potential solutions to any barriers preventing, discouraging, or failing to encourage adults, with and without a high school diploma, to attend regional technical centers, including scheduling issues, availability of classes outside the traditional school day and academic year, and financial disincentives.
(5) Consider and propose potential financial and other incentives to encourage regional technical centers to offer technical education programs at times other than the traditional school day and academic year and to otherwise make technical education programs more available to secondary students and to adults with and without high school diplomas.
(6) Consider the positive and negative aspects of including within the definition of "pupil" for purposes of determining a district's average daily membership all adult students with a high school diploma who are attending programs at a regional technical center and consider and propose other methods of subsidizing tuition for these students.
(b) On or before January 15, 2009, the commissioner shall submit a written report to the senate committee on economic development, housing and general affairs, the house committee on commerce, and the senate and house committees on education detailing the results of the work performed pursuant to this section and all potential methods of addressing the identified issues.
http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2008/bills/passed/H-885.HTM
Title: H.B. 885
Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us
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| MN | Vetoed 05/2008 | P-12 | Relates to school district development screening aide, teacher and administrator licensure, district teacher compensation aide, district debt service equalization aid, non-resident student enrollment, an advisory council on early childhood education and care, adult basic education aid, general education revenue, district land or building leasing, safe schools levies, district borrowing, district repayment defaults, district tax abatement adjustments, testing and reports, and school breakfast programs.
https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H0006.5.html&session=ls85
Title: H.B. 6
Source: https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | Requires representatives of local boards of education to provide information concerning alternative education programs and GED program requirements and testing locations to each individual who no longer attends a public high school in the county and has not obtained a high school certificate or diploma.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2008rs/bills/hb/hb0953t.pdf
Title: H.B. 953; S.B. 264
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12
Postsec. | Requires the State Department of Education each year by August 1 to compile a list by county of adult education and family literacy services offered to the public; requires the Department to distribute the list to specified local school officials and to post the list on its public website.
Title: S.B. 773
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2008 | Postsec. | Creates the interim committee to study issues that relate to adult education, including funding for programs.The committee is to operate by the rules established by the legislative council.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2008/PDF/HE/HE1193.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1193
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative
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| UT | Adopted 01/2008 | P-12 | Defines "adult basic education," "adult education," "GED," "measurable outcomes." Establishes clearer fiscal standards and practices for adult education programs. Adds a new section focusing adult education funds on student outcomes and student mastery. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/code/r277/r277-733.htm
Title: R277-733
Source: www.rules.utah.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Authorizes the Library Literacy and English Acquisition Services Program to be used for services targeted to young adults 16 years of age and over who are not enrolled in school to improve their literacy skills by providing adult basic literacy tutoring and related services. Requires a public library to perform certain functions in implementing this service program. Deletes a requirement that the program have private financial support.
Veto message:
http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_1001-1050/ab_1030_vt_20071011.html
Title: A.B. 1030
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 10/2007 | Community College | Authorizes the community college board to establish and administer a We Want to Learn English Initiative to provide resources for immigrants and refugees to learn English. Provides that the board may include in its budget proposal $ 15,000,000 in funding for the initiative, to be disbursed by the board. Provides that funds for the We Want to Learn English Initiative may be used only to provide programs that teach English to U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, and other persons who are in lawful immigration status. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/SB/PDF/09500SB1446lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 1446
Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Requires state department to develop alternate methods whereby adult students at adult high schools may satisfy any requirement that such students have a minimum number of contact hours to earn credit for a course. Such alternative methods may include learning programs such as independent study under the guidance of a teacher at the adult high school, computer-assisted learning programs, on-line or distance learning programs, and work experience, if appropriate, for a particular course. Any student pursuing an alternate method of satisfying a contact hours requirement shall demonstrate mastery of the course content prior to receiving credit for the course.
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/SB0118.pdf
Title: S.B. 118
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Defines continuing or professional education to mean those classes, courses, and programs designed specifically for individuals who have completed a degree in a professional field, that (i) are intended to fulfill the continuing education requirements for licensure or certification in said profession; (ii) have been approved by a legislatively or judicially established board or agency responsible for regulating the practice of the profession; and (iii) are offered exclusively to an individual practicing in the profession. This bill is identical to HB 2154, which was passed and sent to the governor. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2154ER; http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SB1279ER
Title: S.B. 1279, H.B. 2154
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/
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| UT | Adopted 12/2006 | P-12 | Exempts adult education students from attempting or passing the Utah Basic Skills Competency Test (UBSCT) in order to qualify for an adult education diploma; makes adult education students eligible only for an adult education secondary diploma; after the 2006-2007 school year disallows adult education diplomas from being upgraded or changed to traditional, high school-specific diplomas. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/bulletin/2006/20061101/29132.htm
Title: R277-705
Source: http://www.rules.utah.gov/main/
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| LA | Adopted 11/2006 | P-12 | Raises accountability levels among adult education programs and ensures similar concepts are taught at appropriate educational levels throughout the state. Page 3-11 of 67 http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0611/0611RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXXIX.Chapter 1-11
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2006 | P-12 | Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Department of Education to administer prekindergarten and family literacy programs. Requires a participating program to provide certain child development and family literacy services in order to receive funding. Requires a local educational agency to select a program coordinator. Makes an appropriation to provide direct child care services for children in participating classrooms. Encourages participating providers to offer full-day services.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0151-0200/ab_172_bill_20060907_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 172
Source: California Legislature
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| CA | Signed into law 08/2006 | Postsec.
Community College | Requires the Chancellor of the Community Colleges and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene a working group of adult education and data experts to review the separate, existing adult education and noncredit instruction data systems, and to report to the Legislature and Governor on the feasibility, design and cost of a common data set in adult education.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1301-1350/ab_1319_bill_20060817_enrolled.pdf
Title: A.B. 1319
Source: California Legislature
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| IA | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Deletes provision that a local board may provide an extended school tuition-free program for district residents over the maximum school age of 21 who do not have a high school diploma or high school equivalency diploma and who are currently enrolled in an education program in the district. Repeals related provisions. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2272
Title: S.B. 2272 - Section 38
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2006 | Community College | Proposes to continue the college transitions pilot projects that are in place in 7 adult education programs to assist persons to make the transition from job loss to community college by placing them in an adult education setting where they learn about adapting to a learning environment, explore college programs and are placed in an academic setting to improve skills and confidence. Private and Special Law 69
Title: S.B. 702
Source: Maine Legislature
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2006 | Postsec.
Community College | Requires the State Department of Education to provide competitive adult education grants beginning in fiscal year 2007 for specified eligible adult education providers; requires that funding for State adult education grants shall be provided in the State budget; provides for the manner of calculation of the amount of a State adult education grant available for each county for distribution to specified adult education providers.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb1130t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1130
Source: Maryland Legislature
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| WY | Signed into law 03/2006 | Community College | Relates to adult basic education; transfers the adult basic education and general educational development programs from the Department of Workforce Services to the Community College Commission; specifies application of transfer; provides for an effective date.
http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2006/Enroll/HB0153.pdf
Title: H.B. 153
Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us/
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2005 | P-12 | An act to add Section 60851.3 to the Education Code, relating to education. Require the exit examination to be offered to a person regularly enrolled in an adult education program. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1051-1100/ab_1057_bill_20050908_enrolled.pdf
Title: A.B. 1057
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2005 | Community College
Postsec. | The Community Colleges System Office is designated as the primary lead agency for delivering workforce development training, adult literacy training, and adult education programs in the State.
http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/HTML/H583v5.html
Title: H.B. 583
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Limits professional development requirements for certified personnel working solely in the following adult education programs: (1) Adult basic education; (2) General adult education; (3) English as a second language for adults; and (4) General Educational Development Test examiners. 34http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1150.pdf
Title: S.B. 1150
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| NM | Pocket Veto by GOVERNOR. 04/2005 | Postsec.
Community College | Relates to second semester for education works program.
Title: S.B. 691
Source: StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Defines terms, including "mathematics coach," "mathematics diagnostic assessment," "mathematics intervention program," "mathematics leader," "mathematics mentor," and "numeracy." Establishes the Committee for Mathematics Achievement to develop a multi-faceted strategic plan to improve student achievement in mathematics at all levels of schooling, prekindergarten through postsecondary and adult. Specifies that at a minimum, the plan must address:
(a) Challenging curriculum that is aligned prekindergarten through postsecondary, including consensus among high school teachers and postsecondary education faculty about expectations, curriculum, and assessment;
(b) Attitudes and beliefs of teachers about mathematics;
(c) Teachers' knowledge of mathematics;
(d) Diagnostic assessment, intervention services, and instructional strategies;
(e) Shortages of teachers of mathematics, including incentives to attract strong candidates to mathematics teaching;
(f) Statewide institutes that prepare cadres of mathematics leaders in local school districts, which may include highly skilled retired mathematics teachers, to serve as coaches and mentors in districts and schools;
(g) Cohesive continuing education options for experienced mathematics classroom teachers;
(h) Closing the student achievement gap among various student subpopulations;
(i) Curriculum expectations and assessments of students among the various school levels, prekindergarten, primary, elementary, middle, and high school;
(j) Content standards for adult education centers providing mathematics curricula;
(k) Introductory postsecondary education mathematics courses that are appropriate to the wide array of academic programs and majors;
(l) Research to analyze further the issues of transition from high school or GED programs to postsecondary education mathematics; and
(m) The early mathematics testing program under KRS 158.803.
Other factors may be included in the strategic plan as deemed appropriate by the committee to improve mathematics achievement of Kentucky students.
Requires the committee to (a) Design a statewide professional development program that includes summer mathematics institutes at colleges and universities, follow-up, and school-based support services, beginning no later than June 1, 2006, to prepare teams of teachers as coaches and mentors of mathematics at all school levels to improve student achievement. Specifies areas the design must address. (b) Require schools and districts approved to have participants in the mathematics leader institutes to provide specified assurances to support institute participants and students who need modified instructional and intervention services in math.
Establishes committee membership, terms, chairmanship, attachmetn to Kentucky Department of Education, and responsibilities. Specifies that the committee must:
(a) Present a draft strategic plan addressing the requirements in subsection (1) of this section and other issues that arose during the work of the committee to the Education Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee no later than August 2005;
(b) Present the strategic plan for improving mathematics achievement to the Interim Joint Committee on Education by July 15, 2006, which shall include any recommendations that require legislative action; and
(c) Provide a final written report of committee activities to the Interim Joint Committee on Education and the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2006.
Also specifies that the committee will have ongoing responsibility for providing advice and guidance to policymakers in the development of statewide policies and in the identification and allocation of resources to improve mathematics achievement. In carrying out this responsibility, the committee must periodically review the strategic plan and make modifications as deemed appropriate and report those to the Interim Joint Committee on Education.
Mandates that the committee collaborate with the Center for Mathematics to ensure that there is ongoing identification of research-based intervention programs for K-12 students who have fallen behind in mathematics, rigorous mathematics curricula that prepare students for the next level of schooling, research-based professional development models that prepare teachers in mathematics and pedagogy, and strategies for closing the gap between high school or GED and postsecondary mathematics preparation.
Declares an emergency.
http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93.htm
Fiscal note: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93/FN.doc
Title: H.B. 93 (Section 2)
Source: lrc.ky.gov
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| UT | Rule Adoption 02/2005 | Postsec.
Community College | Proposes rule to develop a statewide fee schedule for adult education classes based upon a student's ability to pay. Amends link of fees to free/reduced lunch criteria and establishes a basic fee amount for classes. UTAH REG 27592 (SN)
Title: R277-733
Source: StateNet
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| GA | Adopted 12/2004 | Postsec. | Establishes rules regarding the Area School Program and adult literacy grants. http://rules.sos.state.ga.us/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=GRANTS_OF_GEORGIA_DEPARTMENT_OF_TECHNICAL_AND_ADULT_EDUCATION%2FGRANT_PROGRAMS%2Findex.html&d=1
Title: GAC 668-1
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | Postsec.
Community College | Establishes the Joint Commission on Adult Education for the purpose of making recommendations regarding the coordination of adult education and noncredit community college programs in order to improve adult education services. Requires the joint commission to issue an interim and a final report. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1401-1450/sb_1442_bill_20040825_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/SB_1442_veto.pdf
Title: S.B. 1442
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | Postsec. | Provides that the allocation of statewide authorized adult education average daily attendance would be modified pursuant to a specified formula. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to allocate the excess funds as grants to school districts operating adult education programs, based on an equal amount per unit of adult education average daily attendance. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1301-1350/sb_1309_bill_20040824_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/SB_1309_veto.pdf
Title: S.B. 1309
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Creates the Ex-Offender Literacy Act that states the success of a pilot program requiring an adult convicted of a nonviolent or nonserious offense to participate in a program designed to assist the person obtain the equivalent of a 12th grade education as a condition of probation would be successful if at least 10% of the persons participating in the program obtain the equivalent of a 12th grade education within 3 years or improve their educational level by 3 years within 3 years. ftp://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1901-1950/ab_1901_bill_20040628_chaptered.html
Title: A.B. 1901
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| FL | Signed by Governor 06/2004 | P-12 | Relates to career, workforce and technical education; requires said education programs within the comprehensive high school program of study to be industry certified; provides academic requirements for students enrolled in said education programs; allows charter technical career center sponsors to submit full-time enrollment membership data as defined in the charter agreement; provides for career education certification on high school diploma; allows incentive funding to school districts for students receiving certifications; redesignates adult technical education programs as workforce education programs; provides certain responsibilities for district school boards and superintendents.
http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=hb0769er.html&Directory=session/2004/House/bills/billtext/html/
Title: H.B. 769
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| FL | Vetoed 06/2004 | Postsec. | Relates to workforce development education programs; redesignates adult technical education programs as workforce development education programs; provides requirements for funding. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb1258er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 1258
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| AR | Rule Adoption 06/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Establishes rules regarding secondary area centers as a part of the policies and procedures for secondary programs and adult skill training classes and secondary vocational centers.
Title: Uncodified
Source: StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12
Community College | Allows individuals over 22 years of age to attend vocational programs on a campus that is not a comprehensive high school campus during regular school hours in a county with a population that exceeds one million in a joint technological education district (JTED) if additional student capacity remains after the enrollment of students who are 22 or younger. Students over the age of 22 should not be included in the student count for specified purposes. Requires vocational programs offered by the district to individuals over the age of 22 to be limited to high school curriculum unless offered in conjunction with a community college district. The department of education will not provide funds related to this law for any student who has either graduated from high school or obtained a GED diploma or has reached 22 years of ages (whichever comes first). JTED governing boards are required to establish security policies for student safety. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0263.htm
Title: H.B. 2005
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Correctional Education to arrange for noncustodial parent offenders committed to the custody of the Department of Corrections to be afforded the opportunity to participate in pre- and post- release parenting programs that include parenting skills training, anger management and literacy skills. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=041&typ=bil&val=sb576
Title: S.B. 98
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2003 | Postsec. | Relates to award of Cal Grants to older and returning adult students. Requires the Student Aid Commission to convene an existing advisory committee to review the existing formula for calculating high school grade point averages. Requires the commission to review whether the act provides adequate resources for nontraditional, returning, and older adult students. Requires the commission to report the findings and
recommendations of this committee to the Legislature as part of a report that is currently required to be submitted to the Legislature,
prior to December 31, 2004. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0651-0700/sb_680_bill_20031011_chaptered.html
Title: S.B. 680
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| MI | Signed into law 08/2003 | P-12 | Sec. 107a. (1) The family resource center curriculum blue ribbon study committee is established to explore and make
recommendations on implementing a new integrated system of delivering adult education and related family services
beginning with the 2004-2005 school year, including, but not limited to:
(a) Educational services, including, but not limited to, high school completion programs, adult basic education,
general education development (G.E.D.) test preparation, English as a second language programs, and early childhood
education.
(b) Family services, including, but not limited to, even start programs, 21st century learning center grants,
before- and after-school child care programs, parenting classes, and referrals for family and child services.
(c) Employment and training services, including, but not limited to, career preparation programs and work readiness
classes.
(2) The family resource center curriculum blue ribbon study committee shall consist of the following:
(a) Two members of the senate, 1 appointed by the senate majority leader and 1 appointed by the senate minority
leader.
(b) Two members of the house of representatives, 1 appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives and
1 appointed by the minority leader of the house of representatives.
(c) A representative of the Michigan association of community and adult education.
(d) A representative of the Michigan works! association.
(e) Three local adult education program directors, appointed jointly by the legislative members appointed under
subdivisions (a) and (b).
(f) Three local Michigan works program directors, appointed jointly by the legislative members appointed under
subdivisions (a) and (b).
(g) The state director of adult education.
(3) The timetable for the work of the family resource center curriculum blue ribbon study committee is as follows:
(a) Not later than September 1, 2003, report on its progress to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees
responsible for this act.
(b) Not later than November 1, 2003, make final recommendations to the senate and house appropriations
subcommittees responsible for this act.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/billenrolled/house/pdf/2003-HNB-4401.pdf
Title: H.B. 4401 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.michiganlegislature.org
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| CT | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12
Postsec. | Establishes a pilot program to expand adult education opportunities for incumbent workers (individuals who are employed in this state, but who are in need of additional skills, training or education in order to upgrade employment). http://www.cga.state.ct.us/asp/cgabillstatus/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&bill_num=6634&which_year=2003&SUBMIT.x=6&SUBMIT.y=7
Title: H.B. 6634
Source: Connecticut
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12
Postsec. | Allows parent receiving temporary assistance for needy families to attend eligible post secondary institution as allowable work activity when necessary waivers are in effect or federal law permits enrollment at educational institution as allowable work activity.
Title: H.B. 2450
Source: StateNet
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| CT | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Defines an adult as a person who is not enrolled in a public school program, eliminates the requirement that local or regional board of education eligible expenditures for adult education for computer equipment not exceed five per cent of the total expenditure for adult education during a fiscal year, requires a student to take at least one-half credit course in civics and American government before receiving a diploma. http://www.cga.state.ct.us/asp/cgabillstatus/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&bill_num=966&which_year=2003&SUBMIT.x=17&SUBMIT.y=14
Title: S.B. 966
Source: Connecticut Legislative Web site
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12
Postsec. | Allows a prisoner to receive additional credit time for a diploma or degree completed before July 1, 1999, if the prisoner has a good conduct record since the completion of the diploma or degree, unless the prisoner has been convicted of certain sex crimes and sex crimes involving children. http://www.in.gov/serv/lsa_billinfo?year=2003&request=getBill&docno=482
Title: S.B. 482
Source: Indiana Legislative Web site
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| OH | Rule Adoption 04/2003 | P-12
Postsec. | Establishes rules regarding criteria for enrolling eligible adults in public secondary education programs. Addresses definitions, adult high school diploma programs, program elements, basis for awarding adult high school credits, and criteria for issuing adult diplomas. Addresses administering ninth-grade proficiency tests to eligible adults, criteria and procedures for exemption of job ready general assistance recipients from educational/skills training programs. Regards allocation of funds, approval of request for funds, revisions of vocational plans, provisions for nonpublic school students, and full- time equivalent students for vocational education. OHIO REG 10456 (SN)
Title: OAC 3301-42-01; -43-01 thru -06; -45-01; -61-04 thru -15 (non-seq); -67-01
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2003 | Postsec. | Creates the Arkansas Workforce Improvement Grant Program; provides funding for collegiate level adult education.
Title: S.B. 882
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Rule Adoption 04/2003 | Postsec. | Establishes rules regarding adult education program policies. http://www.work-ed.state.ar.us/AdultEdProgramPolicies2003.pdf
Title: Uncodified
Source: Arkansas Department of Workforce Education Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12
Postsec. | Provides for a continuum of adequate educational opportunities for adults who do not have a high school diploma; creates the Workforce Investment Board and Adult Education Study Committee. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB2714.pdf
Title: H.B. 2714
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12
Postsec. | Relates to education; transfers the authority for adult basic education to the commission on higher education; imposes upon the commission the responsibility of planning and budgeting of statewide adult education programs and establishing protocols for access to funding for eligible agencies, teacher improvement, education improvement and approval of various curricula.
Title: S.B. 691
Source: StateNet
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2003 | Postsec. | Expands the eligibility for higher education adult part-time student grants.
Title: H.B. 2051
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12
Community College | Changes repealer from 2003 to 2007 on 1) the School Crisis Management Program, 2) the transfer of the industrial and adult short-term training programs to the State Board of Community Colleges, 3) the School Administrator Sabbatical Leave Program, 4) the section permitting expulsion for certain disruptive students, 5) requirement that state board develop and make available to district and schools a list of recommended conflict resolution, mediation, cultural diversity and other such materials, and 6) creation of permanent records and cumulative folders for each student in state public schools, to include among other data student's grades, attendance and date of any expulsion from the school system and a description of the student's act or behavior resulting in the expulsion. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2003/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0744SG.htm
Title: H.B. 744
Source: StateNet
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| NY | Vetoed 12/2002 | P-12 | Enhances availability of basic language and high school equivalency educational opportunities for public assistance recipients; requires assessment of public assistance recipient employability and educational level before assignment to work activities can be made.
Title: S.B. 7696
Source: StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 07/2002 | P-12 | Establishes tobacco tax as well as special fund to dedicate tobacco tax revenues for education funding. Monies are to 1) provide unrestricted grants to districts; 2) assist local lead agencies and Baltimore City under the Maryland Infants and Toddlers Program; and 3) provide funding for adult education and literacy services. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/sb/sb0856e.rtf
Title: S.B. 856
Source: mlis.state.md.us
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | Establishes a Family Literacy Education Grant Program within the Department of Education; permits local education providers to apply for grants in order to provide family literacy education, adult literacy education or English language literacy education. http://www.leg.state.co.us/2002a/inetcbill.nsf/fsbillcont/749A738EBAEFDEC587256B3E0082C23B?Open&file=1303_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1303
Source: www.leg.state.co.us
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | Eliminates educational program for disabled adults funded in Workforce development education fund. See bil section 236, page 588, line 7 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us
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| LA | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Lowers age for when certain students may attend alternative education or vocational-technical education programs; provides relative to attendance of certain students in BESE-approved adult education programs. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/021ES/CVT5/OUT/0000JJ1G.PDF
Title: H.B. 21A
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| FL | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Relates to vocational rehabilitation programs for persons with disabilities; requires the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation to develop a plan relating to general vocational rehabilitation programs; provides requirements for the plan; renames the Rehabilitation Advisory Council as the Florida Rehabilitation Council; revises council membership and duties; makes conforming changes to existing provisions.
Title: H.B. 1825
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AL | Signed into law 04/2002 | Postsec. | Transfers adult basic education services from the State Department of Education to the Postsecondary Education Department; provides for the State Board of Education to coordinate the transfer of adult basic education services. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb465.htm
Title: H.B. 465
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Requires the department of education to distribute need- and performance-based grants for adult education. Adult education and -literacy grant funds under this program may be used for GED instruction, the Maryland Adult External High School Program, ESL, family literacy and basic skills and literacy instruction. Funding is as provided in state budget. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/sb/sb0737t.rtf
Title: S.B. 737
Source: mlis.state.md.us
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12 | Income tax; extend repealer tax credit for certain employers sponsoring basic skills training and retraining for employees (RP).
Title: H.B. 474
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MI | Public Act No. 03/2002 | P-12 | Amends the Nonprofit Corporation Act to add the Career Development and Distance Learning Act to the provisions governing such nonprofit charitable organizations.
Title: H.B. 5483
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AL | Act No. 03/2002 | P-12 | Authorizes Public School and College Authority to sell and issue aggregate principal amount of Bonds, in addition to all other bonds previously issued by the Authority; provides funds to pay the cost of workforce development, education and training and the acquisition and construction of training facilities and equipment for the benefit of companies that engage in the business of manufacturing or assembling certain vehicles.http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/sb517.htm
Title: S.B. 517
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2001 | P-12
Postsec. | Specifies that adult basic education and literacy training are within the definition of vocational education training for purposes of Temporary Assistance of Needy Families (TANF) programs.
Title: H.B. 1759
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| PA | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Act No. 26 of 2001. Amends the Pennsylvania Adult Basic and Literacy Education Act; provides for short title, for findings and purpose, for definitions, for grant program, for limitations on funding, for interagency coordinating council, for audits and records and for monitoring and reporting; stresses family literacy: "Family literacy education is an opportunity for undereducated adults and their children to increase the child's readiness for school and chances for academic success, the parent's involvement in the child's education and the parent's basic skills."
Title: S.B. 35
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Vetoed 05/2001 | P-12 | Appropriates funds from the State General Fund in each of the fiscal years 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 to the Department of Education to establish an Adult Education Qualified Health Care Labor Pool Program for a 3 year model training program for health care workers with limited education skills for immediate entry into beginning health care positions with career ladder opportunities.
Title: H.B. 2618
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| HI | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Makes an appropriation for teachers to teach blindness skills to individuals 55 and older with severe visual impairment or blindness.
Title: H.B. 429
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 05/2001 | Postsec. | Authorizes the superintendent of public instruction to distribute adult education funds for the support of an adult education program operated by an accredited tribal college in Montana.
Title: H.B. 267
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WV | Signed into law 05/2001 | Postsec. | Provides higher education adult part-time student grants to students enrolled in postsecondary certificate, industry-recognized credential and other skill development programs of study in demand occupations.
Title: H.B. 2897
Source: West Virginia Department of Education Legislative Update
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Amends the Arkansas Code regarding requirements for private school and home-schooled students to enroll in an adult education program. Students age 16 or 17, enrolled in a private, parochial or home school who desire to enroll in an adult education program shall apply for enrollment to the adult education program, and provide a letter from the principal or administrator of the private or parochial school to verify enrollment.
Title: S.B. 940
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Institutes a monitoring program for students obtaining waivers of school attendance requirements to attend adult education programs.
Title: H.B. 2300
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12
Postsec. | Establishes a task force to study adult education services, including basic skills instruction, English as a second language, General Equivalent Diploma instruction and family literacy instruction.
Title: S.B. 399; H.B. 775
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 01/2001 | P-12 | Chapter No.734 Adult education programs, courses, and classes shall not be used to supplant the regular high school curriculum for high school pupils enrolled in adult education. Adult education shall supplement and enrich the high school pupil's educational experiences. Therefore, adult education, at a minimum, shall meet certain criteria. http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm
Title: A.B. 804
Source: California Legislative Web Site
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| OK | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | Relates to adult literacy; relates to the Center for the Study of Literacy and the Literacy Initiatives Commission; creates the Adult Literacy Services Advisory Committee.
Title: H.B. 2117
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12
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Community College | Public Act No. 91-830; On July 1, 2001, transfers all State Board of Education powers and duties
concerning adult education to the Illinois Community College Board.
Title: H.B. 4266
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12
Postsec. | Administrative costs are limited to 8% for community-based or non-profit organizations and 5% for school districts of the total state funds received from the district or consortium. This cannot exceed the actual unreimbursed cost of administering ABE services. To be eligible to deliver ABE services, a non-profit or community-based organization must demonstrate that it: 1) is legally established; 2) can meet the ABE reporting requirements; 3) provides training for instructional staff; and 4) develops a learning plan for each participating adult learner with measurable goals or have prior experience.
Performance Tracking System (Section 15). Requires all ABE programs to develop and implement a performance tracking system by July 1, 2000 to collect data on the following core indicators: 1) improvements in literacy skill levels; 2) participation in post-secondary education, training, subsidized employment or career advancement; and 3) receipt of a secondary school diploma or equivalent.
Bill also establishes a base aid for ABE programs equal to $1.80 times the population of the district or a minimum of $4,000. After the basic population aid is paid in full, the difference between the state total and the basic population aid is allocated among districts/programs as follows:
1) eighty-four percent is distributed based on a program's relative share of contact hours in the prior year; 2) eight percent is distributed based on a district's relative share of the students with limited English proficiency enrolled in the district in the prior year; and 3) eight percent is distributed based on a district's relative share of adults in the district without a high school diploma according to the last federal census.
For FY 2002 and later, also establishes two limits to the state ABE aid distributed to ABE programs. Total aid for a program cannot exceed four times the rate per prior year contact hour. A program's aid distributed on the basis of contact hours cannot grow by more than 17 percent per year or $20,000, whichever is more.
Legislation additionally directs the Board of Teaching to develop a competency-based license for adult learners as an alternative to the current licensing requirements. The Board must develop recommendations for the legislature, in consultation with a task force, and report to the legislature by January 15, 2002.
Title: H.B. 3800
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CT | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | 00-124., Allows local and regional boards of education to award high school diplomas to wartime veterans who did not earn their diplomas because they withdrew from school to join the armed forces.
Title: S.B. 154
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | (LD 2492)Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to increase the state subsidy for adult education.
Title: H.B. 1778
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12
Postsec. | Relates to adult education and literacy programs; requires the Department for Adult Education and Literacy to enter into long-term agreements with the comprehensive coordinating entities; requires the department to create and implement a funding formula to ensure that all counties have access to core adult education and literacy programs; relates to eligibility for training through the Bluegrass State Skills Corporation; includes training in retail under certain circumstances.
Title: S.B. 1
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Re-creates the Literacy Initiatives Commission.
Title: H.B. 1850
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2000 | P-12 | Provisions of in-service training in the effective use of educational technology for adult education and literacy program professionals. The training is to be delivered at institutes established by the State Council of Higher Education for providing in-service training in educational technology for public school teachers, administrators, and librarians.
Title: H.B. 936
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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