PART V-EDUCATIONAL PERSONNEL TRAINING

PROGRAMS

Higher Education Act of 1965

(P.L. 89-329)

TITLE V-EDUCATION PROFESSIONS DEVELOPMENT

(The provisions of Title V are included in the Higher Education Act of 1965. See p. 358).

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PART VI—VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS

Vocational Education Act of 1963

AN ACT To strengthen and improve the quality of vocational education and to expand the vocational education opportunities in the Nation, to extend for three years the National Defense Education Act of 1958 and Public Laws 815 and 874, Eighty-first Congress (federally affected areas), and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that Title I of this Act may be cited as the "Vocational Education Act of 1963".

TITLE I-VOCATIONAL EDUCATION 1

PART A-GENERAL PROVISIONS

DECLARATION OF PURPOSE

SEC. 101. It is the purpose of this title to authorize Federal grants to States to assist them to maintain, extend, and improve existing programs of vocational education, to develop new programs of vocational education, and to provide part-time employment for youths who need the earnings from such employment to continue their vocational training on a full-time basis, so that persons of all ages in all communities of the State those in high school, those who have completed or discontinued their formal education and are preparing to enter the labor market, those who have already entered the labor market but need to upgrade their skills or learn new ones, those with special educational handicaps, and those in postsecondary schools-will have ready access to vocational training or retraining which is of high quality, which is realistic in the light of action or anticipated opportunities for gainful employment, and which is suited to their needs, interests, and ability to benefit from such training.

(20 U.S.C. 1241) Enacted Oct. 16, 1968, P.L. 90-576, Title I, sec. 101(b), 82 Stat. 1064.

AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 102. (a) There are authorized to be appropriated $355,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, $565,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, $675,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1971, $675.000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972, and $565,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, and each succeeding fiscal year for the purposes of parts B and C of this title. From the

1 Titles II and III of this Act, as redesignated by the Vocational Education Amendments of 1968 (P.L. 90-576), were amendments to the National Defense Education Act of 1958, Public Law 815, 81st Congress, and Public Law 874, 81st Congress. These amendments are incorporated into the text of these laws and are not printed in this part..

amount appropriated pursuant to the preceding sentence and alotted to each State under section 103, 90 per centum shall be available for the purposes of part B and 10 per centum shall be available for the purposes of part C.

(b) There are also authorized to be appropriated $40,000,000 each for the fiscal years and ending June 30, 1969, and June 30, 1970, $50,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1971, and $60,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972, and for the succeeding fiscal years ending prior to July 1, 1975, for the purposes of section 122(a) (4) (A). Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to affect the availability for such purposes, of appropiations made pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.

(c) There are authorized to be appropriated $17,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, for the purposes of carrying out section 122(a) (4) (C). Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to affect the availability for such purpose of appropriations made pursuant to subsection (a).

(d) There are further authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year such sums as may be necessary to pay the cost of the administration and development of State plans, the activities of advisory councils created under this title, and the evaluation and dissemination activities required pursuant to this title.

(20 U.S.C. 1242) Enacted Oct. 16, 1968, P.L. 90-576, Title I, sec. 101(b), 82 Stat. 1064; amended, Apr. 13, 1970, P.L. 91-230, Title VII, sec. 701, 84 Stat. 188; amended June 23, 1972, P.L. 92-318, sec. 201, 86 Stat. 325; amended August 21, 1974, P.L. 93-380, sec. 841(a), 88 Stat. 606.

ALLOTMENTS AMONG STATES

SEC. 103. (a) (1) From the sums appropriated pursuant to section 102(a) the Commissioner shall first reserve an amount, not to exceed $5,000,000 in any fiscal year, for transfer to the Secretary of Labor to finance (upon terms and conditions mutually satisfactory to the Commissioner and the Secretary of Labor) national, regional, State, and local studies and projections of manpower needs for the use and guidance of Federal, State, and local officials, and of advisory councils charged with responsibilities under this title.

(2) The remainder of the sums appropriated pursuant to section 102(a) and all of the sums appropriated pursuant to section 102(b) shall be allotted among the States on the basis of the number of persons in the various age groups needing vocational education and the per capita income in the respective States as follows: The Commissioner shall allot to each State for each fiscal year

(A) An amount which bears the same ratio to 50 per centum of the sums being allotted, as the product of the population aged fifteen to nineteen, inclusive, in the State in the preceding fiscal year and the State's allotment ratio bears to the sum of the corresponding products for all the States; plus

(B) An amount which bears the same ratio to 20 per centum of the sums being allotted, as the product of the population aged twenty to twenty-four, inclusive, in the State in the preceding

fiscal year and the State's allotment ratio bears to the sum of the corresponding products for all the States; plus

(C) An amount which bears the same ratio to 15 per centum of the sums being allotted, as the product of the population aged twenty-five to sixty-five, inclusive, in the State in the preceding fiscal year and the State's allotment ratio bears to the sum of the corresponding products for all the States; plus

(D) An amount which bears the same ratio to 15 per centum of the sums being allotted, as the sum of the amounts allotted to the State under subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) for such years bears to the sum of the amounts allotted to all the States under paragraphs (A), (B), and (C) for such year.

(b) The amount of any State's allotment under subsection (a) for any fiscal year which is less than $10,000 shall be increased to that amount, the total of the increases thereby required being derived by proportionately reducing the allotments to each of the remaining States under such subsection, but with such adjustments as may be necessary to prevent the allotment of any of such remaining States from being thereby reduced to less than that amount.

(c) The amount of any State's allotment under subsection (a) for any fiscal year which the Commissioner determines will not be required for such fiscal year for carrying out the program for which such amount has been allotted shall be available, from time to time, for reallotment, on such dates during such year as the Commissioner shall fix, on the basis of criteria established by regulation, first among programs authorized by other parts of this title within that State and then among other States, except that funds appropriated under section. 102(b) may only be reallotted for the use set forth in section 122 (a) (4) (A). Any amount reallotted to a State under this subsection for any fiscal year shall remain available for obligation during the next succeeding fiscal year and shall be deemed to be part of its allotment for the year in which it is obligated.

(d) (1) The allotment ratio for any State shall be 1.00 less the product of

(A) 0.50, and

(B) the quotient obtained by dividing the per capita income for the State by the per capita income for all the States (exclusive of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands), except that (i) the allotment ratio in no case shall be more than 0.60 or less than 0.40, and (ii) the allotment ratio for Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands shall be 0.60.

(2) The allotment ratios shall be promulgated by the Commissioner for each fiscal year between July 1 and September 30 of the preceding fiscal year. Ällotment ratios shall be computed on the basis of the average of the appropriate per capita incomes for the three most recent consecutive fiscal years for which satisfactory data are available.