AB 38 — Revises provisions relating to career and technical education and work-based learning. (BDR 34-302)
Last action — Chapter 76.
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✓Introduced
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✓In Committee
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✓Passed Assembly
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✓Passed Senate
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✓To Executive
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6Enacted
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced November 18, 2020. Enacted.
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249 added · 271 removedPlain-language change summary
The recent amendments to Assembly Bill No. 38 focus on enhancing career and technical education programs in schools. Notably, it adds a provision to include specific stakeholders in the advisory technical skills committee, aligning the committee's makeup with federal requirements. This change is significant because it ensures that the voices of relevant stakeholders are considered in program development, which can improve the quality and relevance of career training offered to students. Additionally, the bill exempts the advisory committee from some public meeting requirements, potentially streamlining decision-making while still maintaining stakeholder involvement.
(ReprintedAssembly withBill amendmentsNo. adopted on April 19, 2021) FIRST REPRINT A.B.
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38–COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION (O N BEHALF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF E DUCATION ) PREFILED N OVEMBER 18, 2020 ____________ Referred to Committee on Education SUMMARY—Revises provisions relating to career and technical education and work-based learning.
(BDR 34-302) FISCAL NOTE:
Effect on Local Government:
No.
Effect on the State:
No.
~ EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new;
matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
Existing law authorizes the board of trustees of a school district to establish a program of career and technical education and, if such a program has been established, requires the superintendent of the school district to appoint an advisory technical skills committee to perform certain duties relating to the program.
(NRS 388.380, 388.385) Existing federal law makes federal funding for career and technical education contingent on a school district that has established such a program consulting with certain stakeholders concerning certain matters relating to the operationsuperintendent of thea program.school district or his or her designee to consult with such stakeholders as an alternative to establishing an advisory technical skills committee.
(20 U.S.C.
§ 2354) Section 1 of this bill authorizes stakeholders as an alternative to establishing an advisory technical skills committee.
provisions of law requiring meetings of a public body to be open and public.from - *AB38_R1* – 2 – Existing law authorizes the board of trustees of a school district or the governing body of a charter school to offer a work-based learning program upon the approval of the State Board of Education.
(NRS 389.167) Section 2 of this bill requires the application of a school district or charter school to offer a work-based learning program to include a description of the manner in which the performancebasedperformance of a participating pupil will be evaluated.
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- 81st Session (2021) – 2 – EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new;
matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
[(c)]and (3)technical Pupilseducation in the school district;] programs of career [(d)] (4) Parents and legal guardians of pupils enrolled in [public schools] programs of career and technical education in the school district;
[(d)] (4) Parents and legal guardians of pupils enrolled in [public schools] programs of career and technical education in the school district;
and - *AB38_R1* – 3 – (10) Other interested [persons.] stakeholders, as prescribed by regulation of the State Board;
2.to paragraph (a) of subsection 1 shall [:] meet regularly to:rsuant (a) Provide input on updates to the comprehensive needs assessment conducted pursuant to 20 U.S.C.
An advisory technical skills committee established pursuant to paragraph (a) of subsection 1 shall [:] meet regularly to:
(a) Provide input on updates to the comprehensive needs assessment conducted pursuant to 20 U.S.C.
(b)- Review81st theSession [curriculum,(2021) design,– content]3 instructional– supplies, equipment and operation of the program of career and technical education to determine its effectiveness in [:
[(c)] (d) Provide technical assistance to the school district in designing and revising as necessary the curriculum for the program of career and technical education [.] to meet the standards prescribedpre[(d)] by(e) In cooperation with businesses, industries, employer associations and employee organizations in the Statecommunity, Board;develop work-based learning experiences for pupils enrolled in the program of career and technical education.
and [(d)] (e) In cooperation with businesses, industries, employer associations and employee organizations in the community, develop work-based learning experiences for pupils enrolled in the program of career and technical education.
(f) Provide to the superintendent of schools of the school district education and any recommendationsactions regardingof the programcommittee.f of career and technical education(g) andComply] anycomply actionswith the provisions of the[chapter committee.241 of NRS.
- *AB38_R1* – 4 – (g) Comply] comply with the provisions of [chapter 241 of NRS.
Sec.- 81st Session (2021) – 4 – 389.167 1.NRS 3A pupil enrolled at a public school must be:
2.allowed to apply one or more credits toward the total number of credits required for graduation from high school if the pupil successfully completes the number of hours in a work-based learning program [which has been approved pursuant to subsection 2.] required by regulation of the State Board to earn such credits.
NRS 389.167 is hereby amended to read as follows:
389.167 1.
A pupil enrolled at a public school must be allowed to apply one or more credits toward the total number of credits required for graduation from high school if the pupil successfully completes the number of hours in a work-based learning program [which has been approved pursuant to subsection 2.] required by regulation of the State Board to earn such credits.
(a) The fields, trades or occupations in which a work-based learninglea(b) programThe willqualifications beof offered.a pupil to participate in the work-based learning program.
(b) The qualifications of a pupil to participate in the work-based learning program.
Upon approval by the State Board of an application to offer a work-based learning program submitted pursuant to subsection 2, thethe(a) board[Shall designate] Designate an employee of trusteesthe school district or thecharter governingschool, bodyas [:]applicable, shall:to serve as a work-based learning coordinator to coordinate and oversee work-based learning programs.
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Such(b) anMay employeeauthorize mustpupils [approve]enrolled ensurein thatthe eachschool district or charter school, as applicable, who satisfy the qualifications prescribed by the school district or charter school to participate in a work-based - *AB38_R1*81st Session (2021) – 5 – business,subsection agency1.ram orfor organizationthe thatpurpose willof offerobtaining employmentcredit andpursuant supervisionto of(c) aShall pupilestablish] asis partsuitable offor theparticipation in a work-based learning programprogram. [.
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(b) May authorize pupils enrolled in the school district or charter school, as applicable, who satisfy the qualifications prescribed by the school district or charter school to participate in a work-based learning program for the purpose of obtaining credit pursuant to subsection 1.
(c) Shall establish] is suitable for participation in a work-based learning program.
(b) [The required number of hours a pupil must complete in the work-based learning program to qualify for credit for participation in the work-based learning program;
5.must lead to the pupil receiving a high school diploma.ing program 6.] A school district or charter school may allow a pupil who successfully completes a work-based learning program to earn dual credit for participation in the work-based learning program.
[Participation by a pupil in a work-based learning program must lead to the pupil receiving a high school diploma.
6.] A school district or charter school may allow a pupil who successfully completes a work-based learning program to earn dual credit for participation in the work-based learning program.
On or before January 15 of each odd-numbered year, the board of trustees of a school district and the governing body of a - *AB38_R1* – 6 – charter school that offers a work-based learning program shall prepare a report concerning the manner in which the work-based - 81st Session (2021) – 6 – learning program has been carried out and submit the report to the State Board and the Legislature.
(a) The number of pupils participating in the work-based lea(b) The types of work-based learning program;offered through the work-based learning program.
and (b) The types of work-based learning offered through the work-based learning program.
(b) Judicial proceedings, including, without limitation, proceedings before the Commission on Judicial Selection and, except as otherwise provided in NRS 1.4687, the Commission on JudicialJud(c) Discipline.Meetings of the State Board of Parole Commissioners when acting to grant, deny, continue or revoke the parole of a prisoner or to establish or modify the terms of the parole of a prisoner.
(c) Meetings of the State Board of Parole Commissioners when acting to grant, deny, continue or revoke the parole of a prisoner or to establish or modify the terms of the parole of a prisoner.
or - *AB38_R1*81st Session (2021) – 7 – (b)or Otherwiseproceeding,se authorizes or requires a closed meeting, hearing or proceeding, prevails over the general provisions of this chapter.
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Amendments
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Action History
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Chapter 76.
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Approved by the Governor.
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Enrolled and delivered to Governor.
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Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly. In Assembly. To enrollment.
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Read second time.
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From committee: Do pass.
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From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To Senate. In Senate. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To committee.
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Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To printer.
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From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 477.) Dispensed with reprinting.
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To committee.
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Read first time.
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From printer.
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Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Education. To printer.
Sponsors
- Assembly Committee on Education · Primary
Sponsorship breakdown
Export CSV (upgrade) →1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 66 not signed on
Sponsors (1)
- Assembly Committee on Education
Co-sponsors (0)
None.
Not signed on (66)
66 members have not signed on to this bill.
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