Section 6-51-305 - Financing(a)(1) Vocational centers shall be financed by distributing vocational center aid from the Public School Fund according to rules promulgated by the Career Education and Workforce Development Board.(2) Additionally, centers shall be eligible for any new vocational program start-up funds which become available from funds set aside for vocational start-up provided in the fund and for federal vocational education funds.(b)(1) Any funds expended above the maximum funded amount per student as outlined in this section will be the responsibility of the institution or school approved to operate as a vocational center.(2) Any funds received by an institution or school district operating a vocational center either from tuition or from state funds unexpended at the end of the school year shall be carried forward for the purpose of conducting summer programs and community-based education centers or supporting vocational center operations in succeeding years.(c)(1) At each approved vocational center that is a postsecondary vocational-technical school, community college, or two-year college, only those programs that have been approved as designed exclusively for instruction of secondary students will qualify for state aid from the fund.(2)(A) Vocational centers which may provide instruction to secondary students who have been admitted to ongoing programs designed for postsecondary or collegiate students will not qualify for vocational aid from the fund.(B) Under these circumstances, however, a vocational center shall be eligible to receive the tuition described above even if a sending school uses its state aid to pay the tuition.Amended by Act 2019, No. 315,§ 348, eff. 7/24/2019.Amended by Act 2019, No. 179,§ 3, eff. 7/24/2019.Acts 1985, No. 788, § 2; A.S.A. 1947, § 80-2593.1; Acts 1989, No. 68, § 1; 1991, No. 229, § 1; 1999, No. 1318, § 4; 2001, No. 819, § 4.