Title: PREPARE Act
Policy area: Education

Summary:
Providing Rural Equity, Parity, and Reinvestment in Education Act or the PREPARE Act
This bill amends the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 with respect to within-state funding allocations. States are required to reserve up to 15% (currently, 10%) of their grant funds for innovative career and technical education (CTE) activities in rural areas and in areas with high percentages and high numbers of CTE concentrators or participants.
A "CTE concentrator" at the (1) secondary school level, is a student served by an eligible recipient who has completed three or more CTE courses or completed at least two courses in a single CTE program or program of study; or (2) postsecondary level, is a student enrolled in an eligible recipient who has earned at least 12 cumulative credits within a CTE program or program of study, or completed such a program if it encompasses fewer than 12 credits or the equivalent in total.
A "CTE participant" is an individual who completes at least one course or earns at least one credit in a CTE program or program of study of an eligible recipient.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4387 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4387

To amend the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 
  to increase the allocation for rural areas, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 14, 2017

  Mr. Duffy introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 
  to increase the allocation for rural areas, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Providing Rural Equity, Parity, and 
Reinvestment in Education Act'' or the ``PREPARE Act''.

SEC. 2. WITHIN STATE ALLOCATION.

    Section 112 of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education 
Act of 2006 (20 U.S.C. 2322) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``10 percent'' 
                and inserting ``15 percent'';
                    (B) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (A)--
                                    (I) by striking ``1 percent'' and 
                                inserting ``2 percent''; and
                                    (II) by striking ``State 
                                correctional institutions and 
                                institutions'' and inserting ``State 
                                correctional institutions, juvenile 
                                justice facilities, and educational 
                                institutions''; and
                            (ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
                        ``available for services'' and inserting 
                        ``available to assist eligible recipients in 
                        providing services''; and
                    (C) in paragraph (3)(B), by striking ``a local 
                plan;'' and inserting ``local applications;''; and
            (2) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) by striking ``From amounts'' and inserting the 
                following:
            ``(1) In general.--From amounts'';
                    (B) by striking ``section 135'' and all that 
                follows through the end and inserting ``section 135--
                    ``(A) in--
                            ``(i) rural areas;
                            ``(ii) areas with high percentages of CTE 
                        concentrators or CTE participants; and
                            ``(iii) areas with high numbers of CTE 
                        concentrators or CTE participants; and
                    ``(B) in order to--
                            ``(i) foster innovation through the 
                        identification and promotion of promising and 
                        proven career and technical education programs, 
                        practices, and strategies, which may include 
                        practices and strategies that prepare 
                        individuals for nontraditional fields; or
                            ``(ii) promote the development, 
                        implementation, and adoption of programs of 
                        study or career pathways aligned with State-
                        identified in-demand occupations or 
                        industries.''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Definitions.--For purposes of this subsection:
                    ``(A) CTE concentrators.--The term `CTE 
                concentrator' means--
                            ``(i) at the secondary school level, a 
                        student served by an eligible recipient who 
                        has--
                                    ``(I) completed three or more 
                                career and technical education courses; 
                                or
                                    ``(II) completed at least two 
                                courses in a single career and 
                                technical education program or program 
                                of study; or
                            ``(ii) at the postsecondary level, a 
                        student enrolled in an eligible recipient who 
                        has--
                                    ``(I) earned at least 12 cumulative 
                                credits within a career and technical 
                                education program or program of study; 
                                or
                                    ``(II) completed such a program if 
                                the program encompasses fewer than 12 
                                credits or the equivalent in total.
                    ``(B) CTE participant.--The term `CTE participant' 
                means an individual who completes not less than one 
                course or earns not less than one credit in a career 
                and technical education program or program of study of 
                an eligible recipient.''.
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