Career and Technical Education Equity Act

Career and Technical Education Equity Act

This bill amends the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 to revise hold harmless requirements for the allotment of career and technical education assistance grants to states. A state is prohibited from receiving an allotment for a fiscal year that is less than 90% of the allotment the state received for the preceding fiscal year. (Currently, no state may receive an allotment less than the one it received for FY1998.)

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5152 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5152

To amend the hold harmless provision for career and technical education 
                      assistance grants to States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 29, 2016

   Mr. Heck of Nevada (for himself and Mr. Grijalva) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
                             the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the hold harmless provision for career and technical education 
                      assistance grants to States.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Career and Technical Education 
Equity Act''.

SEC. 2. HOLD HARMLESS.

    Section 111(a)(5)(A) of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical 
Education Act of 2006 (20 U.S.C. 2321(a)(5)(A)) is amended to read as 
follows:
                    ``(A) In general.--No State shall receive an 
                allotment under this section for a fiscal year that is 
                less than 90 percent of the allotment the State 
                received under this section for the preceding fiscal 
                year.''.
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