funds paid by the State to local educational agencies) under this section;

(5) provides for making such reports in such form and containing such information as the Commissioner may reasonably require to carry out his functions under this section, and for keeping such records and for affording such access thereto as the Commissioner may find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports.

(c) For the purposes of this section, a work-study program shall(1) be administered by the local educational agency and made reasonably available (to the extent of available funds) to all youths in the area served by such agency who are able to meet the requirements of paragraph (2);

(2) provide that employment under such work-study program shall be furnished only to a student who (A) has been accepted for enrollment as a full-time student in a vocational education program which meets the standards prescribed by the State board and the local educational agency for vocational education programs assisted under the preceding sections of this part, or in the case of a student already enrolled in such a program, is in good standing and in full-time attendance, (B) is in need of the earnings from such employment to commence or continue his vocational education program, and (C) is at least fifteen years of age and less than twenty-one years of age at the commencement of his employment, and is capable, in the opinion of the appropriate school authorities, of maintaining good standing in his vocational education program while employed under the work-study program;

(3) provide that no student shall be employed under such workstudy program for more than fifteen hours in any week in which classes in which he is enrolled are in session, or for compensation which exceeds $45 in any month or $350 in any academic year or its equivalent, unless the student is attending a school which is not within reasonable commuting distance from his home, in which case his compensation may not exceed $60 in any month or $500 in any academic year or its equivalent;

(4) provide that employment under such work-study program shall be for the local educational agency or for some other public agency or institution;

(5) provide that, in each fiscal year during which such program remains in effect, such agency shall expend (from sources other than payments from Federal funds under this section) for the employment of its students (whether or not in employment eligible for assistance under this section) an amount that is not less than its average annual expenditure for work-study programs of a similar character during the three fiscal years preceding the fiscal year in which its work-study program under this section is approved.

(d) Subsections (b), (c), and (d) of 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 final actions in disapproving a State plan or withholding pay

ments) shall be applicable to the Commissioner's actions with respect to supplementary plans under this section.

(e) From a State's allotment under this section for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965, and for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, the Commissioner shall pay to such State an amount equal to the amount expended for compensation of students employed pursuant to workstudy programs under the State's supplementary plan approved under this section, plus an amount, not to exceed 1 per centum of such allotment, or $10,000, whichever is the greater, expended for the development of the State's supplementary plan and for the administration of such plan after its approval by the Commissioner. From a State's allotment under this section for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, and for the next succeeding fiscal year, such payment shall equal 75 per centum of the amount so expended. No State shall receive payments under this section for any fiscal year in excess of its allotment under subsection (a) for such fiscal year.

(f) Such payments (adjusted on account of overpayments or underpayments previously made) shall be made by the Commissioner in advance on the basis of such estimates, in such installments, and at such times, as may be reasonably required for expenditures by the States of the funds allotted under subsection (a).

(g) Students employed in work-study programs under this section shall not by reason of such employment be deemed employees of the United States, or their service Federal service, for any purpose.

(20 U.S.C. 35k) Enacted Dec. 18, 1963, P.L. 88-210, sec. 13, 77 Stat. 412.

RESIDENTIAL VOCATIONAL EDUCATION SCHOOLS

SEC. 14. For the purpose of demonstrating the feasibility and desirability of residential vocational education schools for certain youths of high school age, the Commissioner is authorized to make grants, out of sums appropriated pursuant to section 15 to State boards, to colleges and universities, and with the approval of the appropriate State board, to public educational agencies, organizations, or institutions for the construction, equipment, and operation of residential schools to provide vocational education (including room, board, and other necessities) for youths, at least fifteen years of age and less than twenty-one years of age at the time of enrollment, who need full-time study on a residential basis in order to benefit fully from such education. In making such grants, the Commissioner shall give special consideration to the needs of large urban areas having substantial numbers of youths who have dropped out of school or are unemployed and shall seek to attain, as nearly as practicable in the light of the purposes of this section, an equitable geographical distribution of such schools.

(20 U.S.C. 351) Enacted Dec. 18, 1963, P.L. 88-210, sec. 14, 77 Stat. 414.

AUTHORIZATION FOR SECTIONS 13 AND 14

SEC. 15. There is authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of sections 13 and 14, $30,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965, $50,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, and $35,000,000 for the fiscal year ending

June 30, 1967, and the succeeding fiscal year. The Commissioner shall determine the portion of such sums for each such year which is to be used for the purposes of each such section.

(20 U.S.C. 35m) Enacted Dec. 18, 1963, P.L. 88-210, sec. 15, 77 Stat. 415.

FEDERAL CONTROL

SEC. 16. Nothing contained in this part shall be construed to authorize any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution or school system.

(20 U.S.C. 35n) Enacted Dec. 18, 1963, P.L. 88-210, sec. 16, 77 Stat. 415.

SHORT TITLE

SEC. 17. This part may be cited as the "Vocational Education Act of 1963".

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY

(P.L. 88-210)

House Reports: No. 393 (Committee on Education and Labor), No. 1025 (committee on conference).

Senate Report No. 553 (Committee on Labor and Public Welfare).

Congressional Record, volume 109 (1963):

August 6: Considered and passed House.

October 3, 7: Considered in Senate.

October 8: Considered and passed Senate, amended.

October 29: House agreed to conference.

December 12: House agreed to conference report. December 13: Senate agreed to conference report. Approved: December 18, 1963.

Vocational Education Act of 1946

(George-Deen Act as amended by George-Barden Act)1

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

Title I-Vocational Education in Agriculture, Home Economics, Trades and Industry, and Distributive Occupations 2

SECTION 1. This title may be cited as the "Vocational Education Act of 1946."

1 The George-Barden Act amended the George-Deen Act with the following language: "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act approved June 8, 1936, entitled 'An Act to provide for the further development of vocational education in the several States and Territories' (49 Stat. 1488, ch. 541), is amended to read as follows:"

2 See Amendments to George-Barden and Smith-Hughes Vocational Education Acts, sec. 10, P.L. 88-210, p. 241. The

3 This Act was first enacted June 8, 1936, P.L. 673, 74th Cong., 49 Stat. 1488. George-Barden Act amended it in its entirety and the Health Amendments, P.L. 911, 84th Congress designated this title as "Title I-Vocational Education

DEFINITIONS

SEC. 2. As used in this title

(1) the term "States and Territories" means the several States, the island of Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia;

(2) the terms "State plan" and "State board" shall have the meaning which said terms have in the Smith-Hughes Vocational Education Act; and

(3) the term "Smith-Hughes Vocational Education Act" means the Act approved February 23, 1917 (39 Stat. 929, ch. 114).

(20 U.S.C. 15i) Enacted June 8, 1936, P.L. 673, 74th Cong.; amended Aug. 1, 1946, P.L. 586, 79th Cong., sec. 1 (Title I, sec. 101 as redesignated Aug. 2, 1956, by P.L. 911, 84th Cong., Title III, sec. 301); amended June 25, 1959, P.L. 86-70, sec. 18(b) (2), 73 Stat. 144; amended July 12, 1960, P.L. 86-624, sec. 14(b) (3), 74 Stat. 414.

AUTHORIZATION FOR APPROPRIATIONS FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

SEC. 3. (a) For the purpose of assisting the several States and Territories in the further development of vocational education, there is authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1946, and annually thereafter

(1) $10,000,000 for vocational education in agriculture, including supervision by the vocational agriculture teachers of the activities, related to vocational education in agriculture, of the Future Farmers of America, and the New Farmers of America, to be apportioned for expenditures in the several States and Territories in the proportion that their farm population bears to the total farm population of the States and Territories, according to the last preceding United States census;

(2) $8,000,000 for vocational education in home economics, to be apportioned for expenditure in the several States and Territories in the proportion that their rural population bears to the total rural population of the States and Territories, according to the last preceding United States census;

(3) $8,000,000 for vocational education in trades and industry, to be apportioned for expenditure in the several States and Territories in the proportion that their nonfarm population bears to the total nonfarm population of the States and Territories, according to the last preceding United States census;

(4) $2,500,000 for vocational education in distributive occupations, to be apportioned for expenditure in the several States and Territories in the proportion that their total population bears to the total population of the States and Territories, according to the last preceding United States census;

(5) $375,000 for vocational education in the fishery trades and industry and distributive occupations therein, to be apportioned for expenditure in the several States and Territories on an equitable basis, as determined by the United States Commissioner of Education after consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, taking into account the extent of the fishing industry of each State and Territory as compared with the total fishing industry of the United States (including Territories).

(b) The funds appropriated under authority of paragraphs (1) to (5), inclusive, of subsection (a) of this section may be used for assisting the several States and Territories, for the purposes therein specified, is the maintenance of adequate programs of administration, supervision, and teacher-training; for salaries and necessary travel expenses of teachers, teacher-trainers, vocational counselors, supervisors and directors of vocational education and vocational guidance; for securing necessary educational information and data as a basis for the proper development of programs of vocational education and vocational guidance; for training and work-experience training programs for out-of-school youths; for training programs for apprentices; for purchase or rent of equipment and supplies for vocational instruction: Provided, That all expenditures for the purposes as set forth in this section shall be made in accordance with the State plan for vocational education.

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), the amount to be available for expenditure in any State or Territory shall not be less, for any fiscal year, than $40,000 each for vocational education in agriculture, in home economics, and in trades and industry; $15,000 for vocational education in distributive occupations and there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1946, and annually thereafter, such additional sums as may be needed for the purpose of providing such minimum amounts.

(20 U.S.C. 15j) Enacted Aug. 1, 1946, P.L. 586, 79th Cong., sec. 1, 60 Stat. 775, as sec. 3 of P.L. 673, 74th Cong.; sec. 1, of P.L. 586, 79th Cong., was redesignated Title I, sec. 1, on Aug. 2, 1956 by P.L. 911, 84th Cong., Title III, sec. 301, 70 Stat. 925; amended Aug. 8, 1956, P.L. 1027, 84th Cong., sec. 2, 70 Stat. 1126.

REQUIREMENTS AS TO MATCHING OF FUNDS

SEC. 4. The several States and Territories, in order to receive the benefits of this title, shall be required to match by State and local funds or both 100 per centum of the appropriations made under authority of section 3.

(20 U.S.C. 15k) Enacted Aug. 1, 1946, P.L. 586, 79th Cong., sec. 1, 60 Stat. 776, as sec. 3 of P.L. 673, 74th Cong.; sec. 1 of P.L. 586, 79th Cong. was redesignated Title I, sec. 101, on Aug. 2, 1956, by P.L. 911, 84th Cong., Title III, sec. 301, 70 Stat. 925.

MAKING OF PAYMENTS

SEC. 5. The Secretary of the Treasury, through the Fiscal Service of the Treasury Department, shall, upon the certification of the United States Commissioner of Education, pay, in equal semiannual payments, on the first day of July and January of each year, to the custodian for vocational education of each State and Territory designated in the Smith-Hughes Vocational Education Act, the moneys to which the State or Territory is entitled under the provisions of this title.

(20 U.S.C. 151) Enacted June 8, 1936, P.L. 673, 74th Cong., 49 Stat. 1489; amended Aug. 1, 1946, P.L. 586, 79th Cong., sec. 1, 60 Stat. 776; sec. 1 of P.L. 586, 79th Cong. redesignated Aug. 2, 1956 as Title I, sec. 101, by P.L. 911, 84th Cong., Title III, sec. 301, 70 Stat. 925.