requirements with respect to that State if he determines that a smaller percentage would adequately meet such purposes in that State. Section 205 of the bill would amend section 4(b) by eliminating all percentage requirements for the fiscal year 1969, and by requiring that there be expended for the purpose set forth in paragraph (4) of section 4(a) (vocational education for persons with academic, socioeconomic, or other handicaps) an amount equal to 25 percent of that portion of a State's allotment for each fiscal year beginning with 1970 that exceeds the sum total of all of its allotments for fiscal year 1969 under section 3 of the Vocational Education Act of 1963 and under all of the earlier Federal vocational education acts (that is the SmithHughes and George-Barden Acts and the acts extending the benefits of those acts to the various U.S. territories and possessions). The fiscal year 1969 allotments under existing laws enacted before the 1963 act are included in the base on which the excess over 1969 is to be computed, because another section of the bill; that is, section 215 would repeal those earlier acts effective July 1, 1969.

Section 206. Allowing contracting and dissemination of information under section 4(c).-Section 4 (c) of the Vocational Education Act of 1963 now authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to public or private nonprofit agencies, institutions, and organizations for research and training programs and experimental, developmental, and pilot programs. Section 206 of the bill would amend section 4(c) so as to authorize the Commissioner (1) to make contracts with any public or private entity for these purposes as well (as grants to public and nonprofit private entities), and (2) to make grants or contracts for the dissemination of information derived from section 4(c) programs or from research and demonstrations in vocational education.

Section 207. State advisory council.-Paragraph (1) of section 5(a) of the Vocational Education Act of 1963 presently requires the State plan to provide that if the State board does not include as members persons familiar with the vocational education needs of management and labor in the State and persons representative of institutions of higher education in the State, the State plan shall provide for the designation or creation of an advisory council including such persons. Subsection (a) of section 207 of the bill, after redesignating all the present subsections of section 5, would insert in section 5 a new subsection (a) which would require that all States have a State advisory council (regardless of the composition of the State board) and would make the establishment of such a council (as well as the submittal of a State plan for each fiscal year) a condition for receiving Federal funds. Under the bill, in addition to persons with the qualifications. now required on the State board or advisory council and described above, the State advisory council must also include persons familiar with manpower problems, persons representative of manpower agencies, persons familiar with State and local vocational education programs, other persons with special knowledge, experience, and qualifications with respect to vocational education, and persons representative of the general public. The duties of the State advisory council specified in the bill include advising the State board on the development and administration of the State plan; evaluating vocational education programs, services, and activities, and submitting through the State board to the Commissioner and the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education (provided for by sec. 218 of

the bill) an annual evaluation report, accompanied by whatever additional comments the State board deems appropriate.

Subsection (b) of section 207 of the bill would amend paragraph (1) of section 5(a) of the Vocational Education Act of 1963 (redesignated sec. 5(b) by this section to make room for the new sec. 5(a) described above) by requiring the State plan to provide for consultation between the State board and the State advisory council to the extent required in the new section 5(a).

Section 208. Long-range and annual program plans.-As pointed out above, the amendments to section 5 of the Vocational Education Act of 1963 made by section 207 would require the submission of a State plan for each fiscal year. In conjunction with the requirement for submittal of a State plan for each fiscal year, this section would add to the State plan requirements of the present act (in present sec. 5(a) redesignated by the bill as sec. 5(b)) two new paragraphs, i.e.. a paragraph requiring a long-range program plan and a paragraph requiring an annual program plan, to be included in the State plan submitted each year. (Those paragraphs would become pars. (2) and (3) of sec. 5(b), and other paragraphs would be renumbered accordingly.) The long-range program plan would be supplemented or revised annually and would have to extend over such period of time beginning with the fiscal year for which the State plan is submitted, as the Commissioner deems necessary (but not more than 5 years). It would describe the vocational education needs of the State and set forth a program of objectives to meet those needs. The annual program plan, to be submitted each year with the State plan, would describe the content of, and the allocation of funds to, programs, services, and activities to be carried out under the State plan for the fiscal year ahead (whether or not with Federal funds) and indicate how and to what extent these programs, services, and activities (and allocation of funds thereto) will carry out the objectives set forth in the long-range program plan, take into consideration the criteria for allocation of Federal funds set forth in the State plan pursuant to paragraph (4) discussed under the next section below, and take into consideration the findings and recommendations of the State advisory committee in its evaluation report. Both the long-range plan and the annual program plan would be prepared by the State board in consultation with the State advisory council.

Section 209. Criteria for allocation of Federal funds.-Section 5(a) (2) of the Vocational Education Act of 1963 (redesignated sec. 5(b)(4) of the act as amended) now requires the State plan, among other things to set forth policies and procedures for allocation of Federal funds to the six purposes in section 4(a) and to local educational agencies which insure (A) that due consideration will be given to periodic evaluations of State and local vocational education programs and services in light of current and projected manpower needs and job opportunities, (B) that due consideration will be given to the relative needs of all vocational needs of all groups in all communities in the State. Section 209 of the bill adds to the first criterion (set forth in subpar. (A)) a particular reference to new and emerging manpower needs and job opportunities on the local, State, and National levels. and to the second criterion (set forth in subpar. (B)) a particular reference to persons with academic, socioeconomic, and other handicaps, and adds the following three additional criteria for allocation

of Federal funds: The relative ability of particular local educational agencies, especially those in economically depressed or high unemployment areas, to provide the financial and other resources necessary to meet their vocational education needs; that Federal funds will not be allocated to local educational agencies in a manner, such as the matching of local expenditures at a uniform matching ratio throughout the State, which fails to take into consideration criteria (A), (B), and (C); and finally, that applications from local educational agencies for funds will include a comprehensive plan, related to the local cooperative area manpower plan (CAMPS) if any, for meeting local Vocational education needs.

Section 5(a)(2) of the present act, redesignated as section 5(b) (4) by this bill, also contains a maintenance-of-effort requirement which while omitted from paragraph (4) as revised by this section of the bill, is reinserted in the State plan requirements as a new paragraph (10) by section 213 of the bill. This involves no substantive change. Section 210. Cooperative arrangements with other agencies.-Section 5(a) (4) of the Vocational Education Act of 1963 (redesignated by the bill as sec. 5(b) (6) of the act as amended) requires the State plan to provide for cooperative arrangements between the State board and local educational agencies and the system of public employment offices in the State. This section would insert immediately after section 5(b)(6) a new paragraph (7) requiring the State plan to provide for cooperative arrangements with other agencies, organizations, and institutions concerned with manpower needs and job opportunities, such as business and labor organizations, institutions of higher education, and community action agencies.

Section 211. Inclusion in State plan of exemplary and other special programs. This section would add to section 5(b) of the Vocational Education Act of 1963 (as redesignated) a new paragraph (8) requiring the State plan to provide that effective use will be made of the results and experience of exemplary programs and projects assisted under the new part B, and of research, training, and experimental, developmental, and pilot programs assisted under section 4(c).

Section 212. Public participation and information. This section would add to section 5(b) of the Vocational Education Act of 1963 (as redesignated) a new paragraph (9) requiring the State plan to assure that it has been submitted only after all local educational agencies had been offered reasonable notice and opportunity for a public hearing; and that the State plan and all statements of general policy, rules, regulations, and procedures used in the administration of the State plan will be made reasonably available to the public.

Section 213. Maintenance of effort.-Section 5(a)(2) of the Vocational Education Act of 1963 (redesignated sec. 5(b)(4) of the act as amended) now provides that the State plan shall include policies and procedures for allocations of Federal funds which insure, among other things, that Federal funds will be so used as to supplement, and, to the extent practical, increase (but not supplant) State or local funds that would otherwise have been made available for the six purposes in section 4(a). As above mentioned in the analysis of section 209 of the bill, that provision is omitted from the revised paragraph (4) of section b) (because germane to the listing of criteria, in that paragraph, for allocation of Federal funds to local educational agencies) but the

present section of the bill adds the maintenance-of-effort provision to section 5(b) (as redesignated) as new paragraph (10).

Section 214. Annual evaluation reports. This section adds to section 5(a) (7) of the Vocational Education Act of 1963 (redesignated by the bill as section 5(b) (13) in the act as amended), which requires the State plan to provide for the making of reports, a particular reference to the annual evaluation reports to be submitted by the State advisory council (see discussion of section 207 above).

Section 215. Repeal of vocational education acts and technical amendments related thereto.-Subsection (a) of this section would repeal the Smith-Hughes Act, the Vocational Education Act of 1946 (GeorgeBarden Act), and the various acts extending the benefits of those acts to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa. Subsection (b) (1) would delete from the definition of "vocational education" in section 8(1) of the Vocational Education Act of 1963 the parenthetical reference to business and office programs and to programs assisted with Federal funds under the Vocational Education Act of 1946 and supplementary vocational education acts: and subsection (b)(2) would amend the definition of "State board" in section 8(7) of the Vocational Education Act of 1963 so as to eliminate the reference to the board created or designated pursuant to section 5 of the Smith-Hughes Act and define "State board" in more general terms as the State board designated or created by State law as the sole agency responsible for the administration, or supervision of the administration, of vocational education in the State. Subsection (c) would repeal section 10 of the Vocational Education Act of 1963, which amended the Smith-Hughes Act and the Vocational Education Act of 1946, and section 11, which made permanent the provisions of titles II and III of the Vocational Education Act of 1946.

Section 216. Separate authorization for homemaking education.-This section would insert in the Vocational Education Act of 1963 a new section 10 authorizing allotments to States for homemaking education. (This section 10 is not to be confused with the section 10 which would be repealed by section 215 of the bill.) Subsection (a) of the new section 10 would authorize appropriations for each fiscal year, beginning with fiscal year 1970, of such sums as may be necessary for the purpose of the new section 10 but not exceeding $15 million for any year, and provides for allotment and reallotment of such appropriations in the same manner as that prescribed for allotments and reallotments to States under section 3 of the Vocational Education Act. Subsection (b) of the new section 10 would require any State participating in this section to have in effect a State plan approved under section 5 and to submit a supplementary plan which (1) designates the State board (as defined in section 8(7) of the act) as the sole agency for administration, or supervision of the administration, of the State plan; (2) sets forth a program under which Federal funds will be expended solely for (A) homemaking education for persons who have entered, or are preparing to enter, the work of the home, and (B) ancillary services and activities; (3) sets forth fiscal control and fund accounting procedures; and (4) provides for submitting reports, keeping records, and affording the Commissioner access to such records.

Subsection (c) would make the subsections in section 5 pertaining to the approval of State plans, the withholding of Federal payments

in case of nonconformity after approval, and judicial review of the Commissioner's disapproving of a State plan or withholding of payments, applicable to the Commissioner's actions with respect to supplementary plans for homemaking education.

Subsection (d) provides that the Commissioner shall pay 50 percent of the amount expended for homemaking education and ancillary services and activities, but in no case more than a State's allotment. Subsection (e) is a standard payments provision stating that payments shall be made in advance, in such installments, and at such times as needed by the States, and adjusted on account of overpayments or underpayments.

Section 217. Additional amendments to definitions.-Subsection (a) would amend the definition of "vocational education" in section 8(1) of the Vocational Education Act of 1963 so as to include guidance and counseling through group instruction and training for the purpose of facilitating occupational choices-two types of activities not heretofore supportable with Federal vocational education funds under the Vocational Education Act of 1963 and earlier acts, but which may be included in exemplary programs or projects under the new part B inserted by the bill (see section 104(a)(2)(A) and (C)). Subsection (b) would delete the word "area" from the term "area vocational education school" in sections 8(2) and 4(a) (5) of the act.

Section 218. Establishment of permanent National Advisory Council on Vocational Education in lieu of ad hoc council and interagency committee.-Section 9 of the Vocational Education Act of 1963 now provides for an Advisory Committee on Vocational Education, including ex officio representatives of the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, and Labor, and other persons appointed by the Commissioner, which advise the Commissioner on the preparation of regulations and other matters of administrative policy. Section 12 of the act provides for an ad hoc Advisory Council on Vocational Education, appointed by the Secretary every 5 years to review the administration of federally assisted vocational education programs, make recommendations regarding such administration or changes in legislation, and submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the President and Congress. Effective on enactment, this section would abolish both the advisory committee and advisory council by repealing section 12 and amending section 9 so as to provide for a single National Advisory Council on Vocational Education which will generally perform both the function of the interagency advisory committee and the ad hoc advisory council on a continuing basis.

Subsection (a) of the new section 9 would provide that the council shall consist of 15 members, appointed by the Secretary, serving for 3-year staggered terms and shall include persons familiar with the Vocational education needs and problems of management and labor and persons familiar with manpower problems and manpower program administration, persons knowledgeable about the administration of State and local vocational education programs, other persons with special knowledge, experience, or qualifications with respect to vocational education, and persons representative of the general public. It also provides that the Council shall meet no less than four times a year at the call of the Chairman.

Subsection (b) of the new section 9 would provide that the Council shall advise the Commissioner on the preparation of regulations and