2006 Kansas Code - 72-4463

      72-4463.   Administration of act; duties of state board of regents; examination, prescription, administration, fees. (a) The board of regents shall adopt rules and regulations for administration of the provisions of this act and shall:

      (1)   Publicize procedures for application for vocational education scholarships;

      (2)   provide application forms;

      (3)   determine residence, as provided by law, of applicants for vocational education scholarships;

      (4)   prescribe examinations of ability and aptitude for vocational education and provide for administration of such examinations to determine qualifications of applicants for vocational education scholarships;

      (5)   notify each person who qualifies for designation as a vocational education scholar and for the award of a vocational education scholarship and each vocational education scholar who remains eligible and qualified for the renewal of the award of a vocational education scholarship;

      (6)   designate vocational education scholars;

      (7)   approve and award or renew the award of vocational education scholarships;

      (8)   determine full-time enrollment in a vocational education program;

      (9)   provide for apportionment of vocational education scholarships if appropriations therefor are insufficient for payment in full to all vocational education scholars;

      (10)   evaluate the vocational education scholarship program for each school year and make a report thereon to the governor and the legislature;

      (11)   request any designated educational institution to furnish any information relating to and necessary for administration of this act.

      (b)   In order to comply with the requirements of subsection (a)(4), the board of regents shall prescribe an examination designed to measure the basic ability and aptitude for vocational education of applicants for designation as vocational education scholars and for the award of vocational education scholarships and shall provide for administration and validation of the examination. The examination shall be administered to applicants at least two times each school year, commencing with the 1986-87 school year, at various locations within the state. The board of regents may establish and provide for the charging to and collection from applicants for a vocational education scholarship of a fee to offset, in part or in total, the expense of administration of the examination. The board of regents shall remit all moneys received by or for it from fees collected under this subsection to the state treasurer in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 75-4215, and amendments thereto. Upon receipt of each such remittance, the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount in the state treasury to the credit of the vocational education scholarship examination fees fund, and shall be used only for the payment of expenses connected with the administration of such examinations. All expenditures from the vocational education scholarship examination fees fund shall be made in accordance with appropriation acts upon warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by the board of regents or by a person or persons designated by it.

      History:   L. 1986, ch. 355, § 4; L. 2001, ch. 5, § 287; July 1.