The General Assembly shall provide funds in the annual general appropriations act for the purchase of equipment for career and technology training pursuant to the Department of Education's State Plan for Career and Technology Education. The highest priority in funding for career and technology education must be given to work force preparation, occupational proficiency courses in areas related to:

1. (1) current high technology trades, businesses, and industries;
2. (2) high labor market and high labor intensive demand;
3. (3) small business management; and
4. (4) new and emerging trades, industries, and businesses which foster and enhance the economic development, stability, and diversification of the state's economy.

HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 512, Part II, Section 9, Division II, Subdivision A, SubPart 5, Section 1(B); 2005 Act No. 49, Section 16, eff May 3, 2005.

Effect of Amendment

The 2005 amendment substituted "career and technology" for "vocational", "Career and Technology Education" for "vocational technical education", and "work force preparation" for "job preparatory"; and redesignated items (a) to (d) as items (1) to (4).