Major federal legislation impacting vocational education programs is available on the Web. This issue details some of those sites, including The Library of Congress's Thomas site, which offers full text. Other organizations post summaries, the full text of legislation in different formats and ongoing legislative alerts.
Perkins III[Added after publication of the
Techniques issue]
The full text of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied
Technology Education Act amendments of 1998 (H.R. 1853,
October 1998) is on Thomas at http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.1853.ENR:.
Also see the U.S. Department of Education / OVAE's legislation page.
Workforce Investment
The Workforce Investment Act (Public Law 105-220, August
1998) is available in full text on Thomas at
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.1385.ENR:. The U.S.
Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration has useful
supporting documents--including a summary of the act's workforce
development provisions and a table summarizing the differences between
this act and current law--that are accessible from the ETA's site at
http://doleta.wdsc.org/whatsnew/.
Welfare-to-Work
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (Public Law
104-193, August 1996) is on Thomas at
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c104:H.R.3734.ENR:. Section 5001
of 1997's Balanced Budget Act (Public Law 105-33, August 1997), which
specifies funding for the reconciliation act, is available from the
Interstate Conference of Employment Security Agencies at
www.icesa.org/national/docs/welbudg.htm.
School-to-Work
The School-to-Work Opportunities Act (Public Law 103-239, May
1994) is available on Thomas, but more flexible versions are posted on
the School-to-Work Learning and Information Center site at
http://stw.ed.gov/factsht/act.htm and the Department of Labor's
Technology Training Resource Center at
www.ttrc.doleta.gov/common/legislation/stwoa-toc-all.html.
Perkins
The full text of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied
Technology Education Act amendments of 1990 (Public Law 101-392,
September 1990) is on Thomas at
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c101:H.R.7.ENR:.
Organizational Legislation Pages
The legislation or government relations sites from the
following organizations contain updates about recent and pending
legislation: the Department of Labor Technology Training Resource Center
(www.ttrc.doleta.gov/common/legislation), the School-to-Work Learning and
Information Center (www.stw.ed.gov/general/general.htm#Legislation),
the American Vocational Association (www.avaonline.org/LEGISLTE.HTM)
and the American Association of Community Colleges (http://www.aacc.nche.edu/leg/legislative.htm).
This "NET Gain" was compiled by David Carlson and Peter Seidman
(NCRVE, University of California at Berkeley). An online version of this column will be
available on the NCRVE World Wide Web server
(http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/NetGain/).
Readers are encouraged to let the authors know about any changes in the resources
listed, as well as about others they find useful.
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