CHAPTER 545
H.P. 1227 - L.D. 1649
An Act To Rename the Former Vocational-technical Secondary Education Schools, Now Called Applied Technology Centers and Regions, Career and Technical Education Centers and Regions
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §8301-A, as corrected by RR 1991, c. 2, §61, is amended to read:
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings.
1. Affiliated unit. "Affiliated unit" means a school administrative unit that is affiliated with another school administrative unit that operates an applied technology a center. An affiliated school administrative unit may have its secondary students served by an applied technology a center operated by a school administrative unit with which it is affiliated. An affiliated school administrative unit may also operate applied technology career and technical education satellite programs.
2. Budget failure. "Budget failure" means the failure of an applied technology a region, by August 1st of any fiscal year, to approve a budget for the applied technology region that is at least equal to the sum of the total allocations for applied technology career and technical education of the member school administrative units in the applied technology region.
2-A. Career and technical education. "Career and technical education" means a course or program of education designed to create or improve job-related skills that is part of a secondary school curriculum and approved by the commissioner according to this chapter. A school administrative unit shall make career and technical education available to persons residing in the school administrative unit who are eligible to receive free public secondary education.
3. Center. "Center" means an administrative entity established pursuant to this chapter that provides applied technology career and technical education to secondary students. Unless otherwise specifically provided for by this chapter, an applied technology a center is governed, operated and administered by a single school administrative unit. An applied technology A center shall make its programs available to serve secondary students from school administrative units with which it is affiliated. An applied technology A center may include within its administrative structure applied technology career and technical education satellite programs operated by school administrative units with which it is affiliated.
4. Municipality. "Municipality" has the same meaning as in section 15603, subsection 19.
5. Parent. "Parent" means a parent, as defined in section 1, subsection 20, with legal custody of a minor child.
6. Region. "Region" means a quasi-municipal corporation established by the Legislature to provide applied technology career and technical education to secondary students that is comprised of all the school administrative units within the geographical boundaries set forth for each applied technology career and technical education region in section 8451. An applied technology A region is governed by a cooperative board formed and operating in accordance with this chapter.
7. Residence. "Residence" means, with reference to a person's eligibility to receive vocational education, the school administrative unit in which is located the legal residence of the person's parent if the person has not reached 18 years of age, the legal residence of the person after the person reaches 18 years of age or the legal residence of the person after the person becomes an emancipated minor. A federal reservation is considered part of the school administrative unit in which it is located.
8. Satellite program. "Satellite program" means a program providing applied technology career and technical education to secondary students that is operated, under section 8403 8403-A, by a school administrative unit affiliated with an applied technology a center.
9. State subsidy. "State subsidy" has the same meaning as in section 15603, subsection 26.
10. Unit. "Unit" means a school administrative unit.
11. Vocational education. "Vocational education" means a course or program of education designed to create or improve job-related skills that is part of a secondary school curriculum and approved by the commissioner according to this chapter. A school administrative unit shall make vocational education available to persons residing in the school administrative unit who are eligible to receive free public secondary education.
Sec. 2. Revision clause. Wherever in the Maine Revised Statutes the words "Bureau of Applied Technology and Adult Learning" appear or reference is made to that bureau within the Department of Education, those words are amended to read or mean, as the case may be, "Bureau of Career and Technical Education and Adult Learning."
Sec. 3. Revision clause. Wherever in the Maine Revised Statutes the words "Division of Applied Technology Education" appear or reference is made to that division within the Department of Education, those words are amended to read or mean, as the case may be, "Division of Career and Technical Education."
Sec. 4. Revision clause. Wherever in the Maine Revised Statutes the words "applied technology education" appear, those words are amended to read and mean "career and technical education."
Sec. 5. Revision clause. Wherever in the Maine Revised Statutes the words "applied technology center," "applied technology region," "applied technology satellite," "applied technology program" or "applied technology course of study" appear or reference is made to any of those things, those words are amended to read or mean, as the case may be, "career and technical education center," "career and technical education region," "career and technical education satellite," "career and technical education program" or "career and technical education course of study," respectively.
Sec. 6. Revision clause. Wherever in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A the words "applied technology" appear when referring to an educational purpose and training for careers, those words are amended to read and mean "career and technical."
Effective July 30, 2004, unless otherwise indicated.
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