# Title: Maintenance of Fiscal Effort

Section 311(b)(1)(C): An Overlooked Provision

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The section, without symbols, with its long description is the Carl D.
Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Amendments of 1998,
under Title 20 (twenty)(Education), Chapter 44 (forty-four, Vocational
and Technical Education), Section 2301 (two thousand, three hundred and
one), further located under Title III (3) General Provisions, Part A
(Federal Administrative Provisions, Section 311, Fiscal Arguments,
sub-section B, Maintenance, sub-section 1 (one), Determination,
sub-section C: Decrease in Federal Support. The specific code referenced
is on page 112 (one hundred and twelve), Stat. 3122 (three thousand one
hundred and two). This was Public Law 105-332 (one hundred and five dash
three hundred and thirty two), of the 105th (one hundred and fifth)
Congress.

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Maintenance of Fiscal Effort

Section 311(b)(1)(C) (three hundred and eleven, little b, one, capital
C): An Overlooked Provision

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# Text of Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Amendments of 1998, section 311(b)(1)(C) (three hundred and eleven, subsections little b, one, capital C).

## If the amount made available for vocational ...programs under this Act for a fiscal year is less than the amount made available for vocational...programs under this Act for the preceding fiscal year, then the fiscal effort per student or the aggregate expenditures of a State required by sub-paragraph (B) for such preceding fiscal year shall be decreased by the same percentage as the percentage decrease in the amount so made available. 

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Example 1:

Table 1: A three row, four column table (two rows by three columns of
data) comparing (rows, from top to bottom) non-Federal and Federal
outlays for three fiscal years (left to right): 2003, 2004, and 2005
(the three fiscal years two thousand and three, two thousand and four,
and two thousand and five).

Results: For each year, non-Federal outlays were constantly \$20,000,000
(twenty million dollars) whereas, for each year, Federal outlays were
constantly \$1,000,000 (one million dollars).

Source: Not Specified.

End of Table 1.

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Example 2:

Table 2: A three row, four column table (two rows by three columns of
data) comparing (rows, from top to bottom) non-Federal and Federal
outlays for three fiscal years (left to right): 2003, 2004, and 2005
(the three fiscal years two thousand and three, two thousand and four,
and two thousand and five).

Results: For each year, non-Federal outlays were constantly \$20,000,000
(twenty million dollars) whereas, for 2003 and 2004 (two thousand and
three and two thousand and four), Federal outlays were constantly
\$1,000,000 (one million dollars) each year, but for 2005 (two thousand
and five), Federal outlays were \$900,000 (nine hundred thousand
dollars).

Source: Not Specified.

End of Table 2.

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Example 3:

Table 3: A three row, four column table (two rows by three columns of
data) comparing (rows, from top to bottom) non-Federal and Federal
outlays for three fiscal years (left to right): 2003, 2004, and 2005
(the three fiscal years two thousand and three, two thousand and four,
and two thousand and five).

Results: Non-Federal outlays were \$20,000,000 (twenty million dollars)
in 2003 (two thousand and three) but were only \$18,000,000 (eighteen
million dollars) in 2004 (two thousand and four) and 2005 (two thousand
and five). On the other hand, Federal outlays were \$1,000,000 (one
million dollars) in 2003 (two thousand and three) and 2004 (two thousand
and four), but only \$900,000 (nine hundred thousand dollars) in 2005
(two thousand and five).

Source: Not Specified.

End of Table 3.

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Example 4:

Table 4: A three row, four column table (two rows by three columns of
data) comparing (rows, from top to bottom) non-Federal and Federal
outlays for three fiscal years (left to right): 2003, 2004, and 2005
(the three fiscal years two thousand and three, two thousand and four,
and two thousand and five).

Results: Non-Federal outlays were constantly \$18,000,000 (eighteen
million dollars) in each of the three fiscal years. On the other hand,
Federal outlays were constantly \$1,000,000 (one million dollars) in
2003 (two thousand and three) and 2005 (two thousand and five), but only
\$900,000 (nine hundred thousand dollars) in 2004 (two thousand and
four).

Source: Not Specified.

End of Table 4.

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