Pennsylvania Act 2011-83 — PUBLIC SCHOOL CODE OF 1949 - FURTHER DEFINING "VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION"

Act text

Session of 2011

No. 2011-83

SB 389

AN ACT

Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An act relating to the public school system, including certain provisions applicable as well to private and parochial schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the laws relating thereto," in vocational education, further providing for the definition of "vocational agricultural education."

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 1801(4) of the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, is amended to read:

Section 1801. Definitions.--The following words and phrases as used in this article shall, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, have the following meanings:

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(4) "Vocational agricultural education" shall mean that form of vocational education which [fits for the occupations connected with the tillage of the soil, the care of domestic animals, forestry, and other wage-earning or productive work on the farm] develops student potential for success in entering and advancing through careers in the food, agriculture and natural resources sciences, such as production agriculture, animal science, agribusiness management and marketing, agricultural research, energy systems, agricultural mechanics and engineering, biotechnology, food science, processing and retailing, banking, agricultural education, forestry, horticulture, landscape contracting, nursery and floriculture production, retail garden center management , leadership and career development, management, economics and marketing, natural resource management, plant and soil science, power and systems technology, rural-urban interfacing and other related fields .

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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.

APPROVED--The 27th day of October, A.D. 2011.

TOM CORBETT