From the ECS State Policy Database Business Involvement

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. Please cite use of the database as: Education Commission of the States (ECS) State Policy Database, retrieved [date]. State Status/Date Level Summary MO Signed into law 07/2013 P-12 Postsec. Education Campus Fund S.B. 381 Creates the Innovation Education Campus Fund to provide funding to innovation education campuses - an educational partnership between high schools or school districts, a Missouri four-year public or private institution of higher education, a Missouri-based bu... More... TX Signed into law 06/2013 P-12 Business Involvement in Early College High Schools S.B. 1557 Directs the commissioner of education to collaborate with the Texas Workforce Commission and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to develop and implement a strategic plan that includes (1) strategies to increase private industry participation in the ... More... WA Signed into law 04/2013 Postsec. Modifying Job Skills Program Provisions. H.B. 1247 Amends existing law which requires the annual gross business income of five hundred thousand dollars or more to be equal to or greater than the amount of the requested job skills grant. Commitment of financial support from businesses with an annual gross busin... More... OR Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Community College Workforce Training Program S.B. 175 Creates Oregon Employer Workforce Training Program and Oregon Youth Employment Program in Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development (CCWD) subject to availability of funds. Charges local workforce investment boards with local management of pro... More... FL Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Postsec. Repeals Various Obsolete Education Provisions H.B. 7087 Repeals provisions relating to programs that were never implemented or are no longer funded. The programs are: Digital Divide Council and the associated Pilot Project for Discounted Computers and Internet Access for Low-Income Students; the Institute on Urban ... More... WA Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 STEM H.B. 2621 Designates resource programs for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics instruction in K12 schools; requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to designate schools to serve as resources and examples on how to combine a small, highly personali... More... OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Financial Reporting and Minimum Standards H.B. 1 - Section 3301.07 Partially from the DOE summary of H.B. 1:Modifies the current requirement for the state board to develop a standard for reporting financial information to the public. Requires districts and educational service center boards to report revenues and expenditures ... More... OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Family and Civic Engagement Teams, Business Advisory Councils H.B. 1 - Section 3313.82, 3313.821, 3313.822 Renumbers to 3313.82 existing provision requiring local boards and educational service center boards to appoint a business advisory council. Creates new section 3313.821 requiring local boards, and permitting boards of community schools and STEM schools, to ap... More... KY Issued 12/2008 P-12 Commission on Philanthropy E.O. 2008-1273 Establishes the state Commission on Philanthropy to explore new opportunities for creative solutions to the state's systemic challenges. Provides for an initial focus on early childhood education and child health.... More... UT Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Dangers of Meth H.C.R. 1 Urges junior high, high school and postsecondary institutions to distribue age appropriate materials on the dangers of meth, and that these materials be made available to the business community, city and county governments, and religious communities. Urges sta... More... TX Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Grants for Volunteers, Technology-Based Supplemental Instruction H.B. 2237 (Supplemental Help Provisions) Requires the commissioner to award grants to organizations that provide volunteers for programs to enhance college readiness, workforce readiness, dropout prevention, and personal financial literacy. Also requires the commissioner of education to review and ap... More... IA Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Community Empowerment Initiative H.B. 2769 Increases membership on the community empowerment state board. Requires family support services in the community empowerment initiative to include home visitation. Creates a community empowerment gifts and grants account in the Iowa empowerment fund. Makes an... More... VA Signed into law 03/2004 P-12 Advisory Council of Virginia Business-Education H.B. 9 Abolishes the Advisory Council of Virginia Business- Education Partnership Program and the Virginia Business-Education Partnership Program created to assist local programs in obtaining federal funding to establish local business-education partnerships.... More... CT Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Donation Of Teaching Services By Private Sector H.B. 5841 Permits the donation of teaching services by private sector specialists in workforce shortage areas identified by the Labor Commissioner and the Office of Workforce Competitiveness. http://www.cga.state.ct.us/asp/cgabillstatus/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bil... More... VA Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Satellite public education facilities H.B. 755 Authorizes school boards to enter into agreements with private business and industry for the establishment, installation, renovation, remodeling, or construction of satellite classrooms for grades kindergarten through three on a site owned by the business or i... More... KY Signed into law 04/2000 Postsec. Programs/Commissions H.B. 572 Establishes the Kentucky Innovation Commission to provide ongoing advice, direction and policy recommendations to the governor and general assembly relating to the state's knowledge-driven businesses, research development initiatives and related high-skill tra... More...