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House Journal: Page 930: Wednesday, March 25, 1998

20     3.  To receive a five-year annual award for
21   achieving certification by the national board of
22   professional teaching standards, a teacher shall apply
23   to the department within one year of eligibility.
24   Payment for awards shall be made only upon
25   departmental approval of an application or
26   recertification of eligibility.  A nonrenewable term
27   of eligibility shall be for five years or for the
28   years the certificate is valid, whichever time period
29   is shorter.  In order to continue receipt of payments,
30   a recipient shall annually recertify eligibility.
31     4.  A national board for professional teaching
32   standards certification fund is established in the
33   office of treasurer of state to be administered by the
34   department.  Moneys appropriated by the general
35   assembly for deposit in the fund shall be paid as
36   follows:
37     a.  Upon receipt of award documentation as provided
38   in subsection 2.
39     b.  On January 15 to teachers whose applications
40   and recertifications for annual awards as provided in
41   subsection 3 are approved by the department.  The
42   treasurer of state shall act as custodian of the fund
43   and may invest the moneys deposited in the fund.  The
44   income from any investment shall be credited to and
45   deposited in the fund.  The director of revenue and
46   finance shall issue warrants upon the fund pursuant to
47   the order of the department and such warrants shall be
48   paid from the fund by the treasurer of state.
49   Notwithstanding section 8.33, unencumbered or
50   unobligated moneys remaining in the fund on June 30 of

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 1   the fiscal year for which the funds were appropriated
 2   shall not revert but shall be available for subsequent
 3   fiscal years for the purposes of this section.
 4     5.  An individual shall not qualify for a term of
 5   annual award eligibility unless the individual
 6   applies, certifying eligibility, to the department
 7   prior to June 30, 2003.
 8     Sec. 5.  Section 256.45, unnumbered paragraphs 1,
 9   3, and 4, Code 1997, are amended to read as follows:
10     The department of education shall establish within
11   the department and administer the position of
12   ambassador to education.  It shall be the function of
13   the ambassador to education to act as an education
14   liaison to primary and secondary schools in this
15   state.  The ambassador to education position shall be
16   filled by the educator selected as teacher of the year
17   by the governor, but only if that person agrees to
18   fill the ambassador to education position.
19     The ambassador to education shall receive, in lieu

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