House Amendment 1456


PAG LIN




     1  1    Amend House File 877 as follows:
     1  2 #1.  Page 9, by inserting after line 15 the
     1  3 following:
     1  4    <Sec.    .  NEW SECTION.  256C.7  PRESCHOOL TEACHER
     1  5 SHORTAGE LOAN FORGIVENESS PROGRAM.
     1  6    1.  A preschool teacher shortage loan forgiveness
     1  7 program is established to be administered by the
     1  8 college student aid commission.  A preschool teacher
     1  9 is eligible for the program if the preschool teacher
     1 10 is practicing in a preschool teacher shortage area as
     1 11 designated by the department of education pursuant to
     1 12 subsection 2.  For purposes of this section,
     1 13 "preschool teacher" means an individual holding a
     1 14 practitioner's license issued under chapter 272, who
     1 15 is employed as a preschool teacher in a designated
     1 16 shortage area by a school district or a preschool
     1 17 registered or licensed under chapter 237A.
     1 18    2.  The director of the department of education
     1 19 shall annually designate the geographic areas
     1 20 experiencing preschool teacher shortages.  The
     1 21 director shall periodically conduct a survey of school
     1 22 districts, accredited nonpublic schools, preschools,
     1 23 and approved practitioner preparation programs to
     1 24 determine current shortage areas.
     1 25    3.  Each applicant for loan forgiveness shall, in
     1 26 accordance with the rules of the college student aid
     1 27 commission, do the following:
     1 28    a.  Complete and file an application for preschool
     1 29 teacher shortage loan forgiveness.  The individual
     1 30 shall be responsible for the prompt submission of any
     1 31 information required by the commission.
     1 32    b.  File a new application and submit information
     1 33 as required by the commission annually on the basis of
     1 34 which the applicant's eligibility for the renewed loan
     1 35 forgiveness will be evaluated and determined.
     1 36    c.  Complete and return on a form approved by the
     1 37 commission an affidavit of practice verifying that the
     1 38 applicant is a preschool teacher in an eligible
     1 39 teacher shortage area.
     1 40    4.  The annual amount of preschool teacher shortage
     1 41 loan forgiveness shall not exceed the resident tuition
     1 42 rate established for institutions of higher learning
     1 43 governed by the state board of regents for the first
     1 44 year following the teacher's graduation from an
     1 45 approved practitioner preparation program, or twenty
     1 46 percent of the teacher's total federally guaranteed
     1 47 Stafford loan amount under the federal family
     1 48 education loan program or the federal direct loan
     1 49 program, including principal and interest, whichever
     1 50 amount is less.  A preschool teacher shall be eligible
     2  1 for the loan forgiveness program for not more than
     2  2 five consecutive years.
     2  3    5.  A preschool teacher shortage loan forgiveness
     2  4 repayment fund is created for deposit of moneys
     2  5 appropriated to or received by the college student aid
     2  6 commission for use under the program.  Notwithstanding
     2  7 section 8.33, moneys deposited in the fund shall not
     2  8 revert to any fund of the state at the end of any
     2  9 fiscal year but shall remain in the loan forgiveness
     2 10 repayment fund and be continuously available for loan
     2 11 forgiveness under the program.  Notwithstanding
     2 12 section 12C.7, subsection 2, interest or earnings on
     2 13 moneys deposited in the fund shall be credited to the
     2 14 fund.
     2 15    6.  The college student aid commission shall submit
     2 16 in a report to the general assembly by January 1,
     2 17 annually, the number of individuals who received loan
     2 18 forgiveness pursuant to this section, which shortage
     2 19 areas the preschool teachers taught in, the amount
     2 20 paid to each program participant, and other
     2 21 information identified by the commission as indicators
     2 22 of outcomes from the program.
     2 23    7.  Of the amounts appropriated in section 256C.6
     2 24 and in other law for purposes of the initial preschool
     2 25 foundation aid payments to school districts approved
     2 26 to participate in the preschool program under this
     2 27 chapter, the following amounts are transferred to the
     2 28 college student aid commission for the indicated
     2 29 fiscal years to be used for purposes of the preschool
     2 30 teacher shortage loan forgiveness program established
     2 31 in this section:
     2 32    a.  For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2007, two
     2 33 hundred fifty thousand dollars.
     2 34    b.  For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2008,
     2 35 five hundred thousand dollars.
     2 36    c.  For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2009, six
     2 37 hundred thousand dollars.
     2 38    d.  For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2010,
     2 39 seven hundred thousand dollars.>
     2 40 #2.  By renumbering as necessary.
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     2 43                               
     2 44 L. MILLER of Scott
     2 45 HF 877.503 82
     2 46 jp/je/8038

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