Kansas Statutes 74-32,427. Payment of grants; times and method; disposition upon discontinued attendance of an eligible student; career technical workforce grant discontinued attendance fund
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 74-32,427
- Board: means the board of education of any school district or the board of trustees of any community college. See Kansas Statutes 74-32,253
- Board of regents: means the state board of regents provided for in the constitution of this state and described in article 32 of chapter 74 of Kansas Statutes Annotated. See Kansas Statutes 74-3278
- Career technical education: means organized educational programs offering a sequence of courses which are directly related to the preparation of individuals in paid or unpaid employment in current or emerging occupations requiring other than a baccalaureate or advanced degree. See Kansas Statutes 74-32,407
- Career technical workforce grant: means the award of a financial grant-in-aid by this state under this act to an eligible student. See Kansas Statutes 74-32,423
- Designated educational institution: means an educational institution that: (1) Has been identified by the Kansas board of regents, working in conjunction with the Kansas department of commerce, as delivering programs that are high cost, high demand or in a critical industry field; (2) is eligible to receive federal title IV funding; and (3) has its main campus or principal place of operation located in Kansas. See Kansas Statutes 74-32,423
- Eligible student: means a person who is: (1) A resident of Kansas, (2) initially acceptable for enrolling at an ROTC institution or who has so enrolled and is in good standing, and (3) qualified for participation in the reserve officers' training corps program at such ROTC institution or who is participating in the program. See Kansas Statutes 74-3255
- Institution: means the university of Kansas, university of Kansas medical center, Kansas state university of agriculture and applied science, Wichita state university, Emporia state university, Pittsburg state university, Fort Hays state university and Kansas state university polytechnic campus;
(b) "governing authority" means the state board of regents or the chief executive officer of an institution if such officer has been designated by the state board to act on its behalf in exercising the authority of the board to care for, control, maintain and supervise all roads, streets, driveways and parking facilities for vehicles on the grounds of the institution; and
(c) "vehicle" means motor vehicle, motorized bicycle and bicycle. See Kansas Statutes 74-3209
- Program: means the Kansas work-study program established by this act. See Kansas Statutes 74-3275
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
- Term: means one of two or more substantially equivalent divisions of the academic year of an eligible institution. See Kansas Statutes 74-3284
(a) Payments to an eligible student of a career technical workforce grant shall be made at times specified by the board of regents upon vouchers approved by its designated administrative officer and upon warrants of the director of accounts and reports. Payments of a career technical workforce grant may be made by the issuance of a single warrant to each designated educational institution at which an eligible student is enrolled for the total amount of career technical workforce grants for all eligible students enrolled at that institution. The director of accounts and reports shall cause such warrant to be delivered to the designated educational institution at which the eligible student is enrolled. Upon receipt of such warrant, the designated educational institution shall credit immediately the account of each eligible student enrolled at that institution by an amount specified by the board of regents for each such eligible student.
(b) If an eligible student discontinues attendance before the end of an eligible career technical education program or program term, after the designated educational institution has received payment under this section, the designated educational institution shall pay to the state: (1) The entire amount which the eligible student would otherwise qualify to have refunded not to exceed the amount of the payment made under the career technical workforce grant; or (2) if the eligible student has received payments under any federal program of student assistance, the state’s pro rata share of the entire amount which the eligible student would otherwise qualify to have refunded, not to exceed the amount of the payment made under the career technical workforce grant.
(c) All amounts paid to the state by a designated educational institution under subsection (b) shall be deposited in the state treasury and credited to the career technical workforce grant discontinued attendance fund which is hereby established. All expenditures from the career technical workforce grant discontinued attendance fund shall be for career technical workforce grants. On the effective date of this act, the vocational education scholarship discontinued attendance fund is hereby redesignated as the career technical workforce grant discontinued attendance fund.