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1 1 Section 1. NEW SECTION. 256.44 NATIONAL BOARD
1 2 CERTIFICATION AWARD.
1 3 1. A teacher who holds a national board for professional
1 4 teaching standards certificate and is employed by a school
1 5 district in Iowa shall be eligible for an annual award of ten
1 6 thousand dollars each year the certificate, which may be
1 7 renewed by the national board at ten-year intervals, is valid.
1 8 To receive the award, a teacher shall apply to the department
1 9 of education upon receipt of certification. Payment shall be
1 10 made only upon department approval of the application. Annual
1 11 payments shall be made only for the remaining time for which
1 12 the teacher holds the national board certificate.
1 13 2. The department shall notify the school district
1 14 employing the teacher of the department's payment approval.
1 15 Upon receiving notification, the school district shall
1 16 increase the teacher's regular compensation as specified in
1 17 the teacher's contract by ten thousand dollars, and shall
1 18 prorate the increase among the payments remaining in the
1 19 teacher's contract.
1 20 3. A national board for professional teaching standards
1 21 certification fund is established in the office of treasurer
1 22 of state to be administered by the department. Moneys
1 23 appropriated by the general assembly for deposit in the fund
1 24 shall be paid to school districts in accordance with this
1 25 section, and shall be expended only for payments for those
1 26 teachers duly certified by the national board and approved
1 27 through the department's application process, and to pay the
1 28 costs, in addition to the ten thousand dollars specified in
1 29 subsections 1 and 2, of the employer's share of the federal
1 30 social security and the Iowa public employees' retirement
1 31 system, or a pension and annuity retirement system established
1 32 under chapter 294, due to the increase in the teacher's salary
1 33 pursuant to subsection 2.
1 34 Sec. 2. Section 294A.25, Code Supplement 1997, is amended
1 35 by adding the following new subsection:
2 1 NEW SUBSECTION. 12. For the fiscal year beginning July 1,
2 2 1998, and ending June 30, 1999, from phase III moneys, the
2 3 amount of two hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as
2 4 is necessary, to the office of treasurer of state for deposit
2 5 in the national board for professional teaching standards
2 6 certification fund established under section 256.44.
2 7 EXPLANATION
2 8 This bill provides for an annual payment of $10,000 to each
2 9 teacher employed by a school district in Iowa who holds a
2 10 national board for professional teaching standards
2 11 certificate. The bill also establishes a national board for
2 12 professional teaching standards certification fund to be
2 13 administered by the department of education, and for fiscal
2 14 year 1998-1999, appropriates $200,000 from phase III moneys
2 15 for deposit in the fund.
2 16 LSB 4204HC 77
2 17 kh/jl/8
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