HIGHER EDUCATION AMENDMENTS TO THE CARL D. PERKINS VOCATIONAL AND APPLIED TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION ACT.

SEC. 351. HIGHER EDUCATION AMENDMENTS TO THE CARL D. PERKINS VOCATIONAL AND APPLIED TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION ACT. (a) Amendment.— The Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act (20 U.S.C. 2301 et seq.) is amended— (1) in paragraph (2) of section 232(d)— (A) by inserting “, notwithstanding section 427(b)(2) of the Higher Education Amendments of 1992,” before “has”; and (B) by inserting “as such section was in effect on July 22, 1992” before the semicolon; and (2) in subparagraph (B) of section 404(a)(4)(B)— (A) by inserting “, notwithstanding section 427(b)(2) of the Higher Education Amendments of 1992,” before “has”; and (B) by inserting “as such section was in effect on July 22, 1992” before the period. (b) Effective Date.— Subsection (a) and the amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act, except that a State that, prior to such date, distributed funds under section 232 of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act from funds appropriated for fiscal year 1994 for such program to proprietary institutions of higher education, as such term is defined in section 481(b) of the Higher Education Act of 1965, may continue to distribute such funds to such institutions until July 1, 1995.