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Calendar No. 155
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 366
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
MAY 10, 2005
Received 
JULY 1, 2005
Read twice and placed on the calendar 
AN ACT 
To amend the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical 
Education Act of 1998 to strengthen and improve pro-
grams under that Act.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Vocational and Tech-
nical Education for the Future Act’’. 
SEC. 2. REFERENCES. 
Wherever in this Act an amendment is expressed in 
terms of an amendment to or repeal of a section or other 
provision, the amendment or repeal shall be considered to
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be made to a section or other provision of the Carl D. 
Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998 
(20 U.S.C. 2301 et seq.). 
SEC. 3. PURPOSES AND DEFINITIONS. 
(a) PURPOSES.—Section 2(2) (20 U.S.C. 2301(2)) is 
amended by inserting ‘‘rigorous and challenging’’ after 
‘‘integrate’’. 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—Section 3 (20 U.S.C. 2302) is 
amended—
(1) by striking paragraph (26) and redesig-
nating paragraphs (21) through (25) as paragraphs 
(23) through (27), and paragraphs (27) through 
(30) as paragraphs (29) through (32), respectively; 
(2) by redesignating paragraphs (4) through 
(20) as paragraphs (5) through (21), respectively, 
and inserting after paragraph (3) the following: 
‘‘(4) ARTICULATION
AGREEMENT.—The term 
‘articulation agreement’ means a written commit-
ment, agreed upon at the State level or approved an-
nually and facilitated by the lead administrators of 
the secondary and postsecondary consortia members 
as described in section 135(b)(3)(A), to provide a 
program designed to provide students with a non-
duplicative sequence of progressive achievements 
leading to degrees, certificates, or credentials in a
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tech-prep education program linked through credit 
transfer agreements.’’; 
(3) in paragraph (5) (as so redesignated), by 
inserting ‘‘to students (and parents, as appro-
priate)’’ after ‘‘providing access’’; 
(4) in paragraph (6) (as so redesignated), by 
striking ‘‘section 5206’’ and inserting ‘‘section 
5210’’; 
(5) in paragraph (7) (as so redesignated)—
(A) by striking ‘‘method of instruction’’ 
and inserting ‘‘method’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘rigorous and chal-
lenging’’ after ‘‘required’’; 
(6) in paragraph (11)(A) (as so redesignated), 
by striking ‘‘an’’ and inserting ‘‘a public or non-
profit private’’; 
(7) in paragraph (18) (as so redesignated)—
(A) in the paragraph heading, by striking 
‘‘TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT’’ and inserting 
‘‘FIELDS’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘training and employment’’ 
and inserting ‘‘fields’’; and 
(C) by inserting ‘‘current and’’ after ‘‘tech-
nology, and other’’;
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(8) in paragraph (19) (as so redesignated), by 
striking ‘‘the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the 
Federated States of Micronesia,’’; 
(9) by inserting after paragraph (21) (as so re-
designated) the following: 
‘‘(22) SCIENTIFICALLY
BASED
RESEARCH.—
The term ‘scientifically based research’ has the 
meaning given that term in section 9101(37) of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 7801(37)).’’; 
(10) in paragraph (25) (as so redesignated)—
(A) in subparagraph (C), by striking 
‘‘training and employment’’ and inserting 
‘‘fields’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (E), by striking 
‘‘and’’; 
(C) in subparagraph (F)—
(i) by striking ‘‘individuals with other 
barriers to educational achievement, in-
cluding’’; and 
(ii) by striking the period and insert-
ing ‘‘; and’’; and 
(D) by inserting after subparagraph (F) 
the following:
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‘‘(G) individuals with other barriers to edu-
cational achievement, as determined by the 
State.’’; 
(11) by inserting after paragraph (27) (as so 
redesignated) the following: 
‘‘(28) SUPPORTIVE SERVICES.—The term ‘sup-
portive services’ means services such as transpor-
tation, child care, dependent care, and needs-based 
payments, that are necessary to enable an individual 
to participate in activities authorized under this 
Act.’’; 
(12) in paragraph (29) (as so redesignated), by 
striking ‘‘section 2’’ and inserting ‘‘section 2(a)(4)’’; 
(13) in paragraph (30) (as so redesignated)—
(A) by inserting ‘‘of subsection (a)’’ after 
‘‘paragraph (2)’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘paragraph (5)(A) of such 
section’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraph (5)(A) of 
such subsection’’; and 
(14) by amending paragraph (31)(A) (as so re-
designated) to read as follows: 
‘‘(A) offer a sequence of courses that—
‘‘(i) provides individuals with the rig-
orous and challenging academic and tech-
nical knowledge and skills the individuals