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JFAC approves funding increases for Career Technical Education and requires reporting on adult education outcomes
Summary
The committee approved additional spending authority for federal grants and new general-fund monies for adult education and technical-college distribution, and adopted language requiring reports and exemptions for the Division of Career Technical Education.
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee approved a package for the Division of Career Technical Education (CTE) that increases federal spending authority and adds general-fund resources for adult education and for technical colleges.
Senator Woodward moved the program-maintenance package that the committee recorded as adding $2,273,700 in federal spending authority for grants, a one-time general-fund appropriation for adult education and literacy programs and an ongoing general-fund trustee-payment allocation to postsecondary programs for distribution to technical colleges. The mover described the package’s totals in committee as an additional $10,050,000 from the general fund and $2,273,700 from federal funds for a total of $12,323,700 (as stated in the committee proceedings).
Committee analysts explained that the accompanying language (adopted by unanimous consent) defines permissible uses of the appropriated funds, requires a report from the Office of the State Board of Education on outcomes of adult-education and literacy investments over the preceding five fiscal years, provides object-transfer exemptions for several CTE programs, and imposes conditions and limitations on the appropriations.
The committee approved the motion and forwarded the bill with a do-pass recommendation. The record shows the committee accepted the language as displayed on the screen via unanimous consent.
Discussion vs. action: Debate included statement of intent to expand adult-education services and distribute trustee payments to technical colleges. The transcript records the formal appropriation motion and the language adoption as committee actions; no amendments were reported during the public discussion recorded in the transcript.
What happens next: The committee’s package and the adopted language will be incorporated in the committee’s bill recommendation and OSBE/CTE will be expected to provide the requested five-year outcomes report on adult education and literacy investments.
