Senate Amendment 3343 PAG LIN 1 1 Amend the House amendment, S=3298, to Senate File 1 2 277, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the Senate, 1 3 as follows: 1 4 #1. Page 5, by inserting after line 47 the 1 5 following: 1 6 <Sec. . NEW SECTION. 284.15 SCHOOL FOR THE 1 7 DEAF AND IOWA BRAILLE AND SIGHT SAVING SCHOOL == 1 8 PRACTITIONERS. 1 9 1. For purposes of this chapter, an individual who 1 10 holds a practitioner's license issued under chapter 1 11 272 and who is employed in a nonadministrative 1 12 position at the state school for the deaf or the Iowa 1 13 braille and sight saving school shall be considered a 1 14 teacher if the individual and the school in which the 1 15 individual practices meet the requirements of this 1 16 chapter. If a school and a practitioner employed at 1 17 the school are determined by the department to meet 1 18 the requirements of this chapter, the department shall 1 19 annually distribute funds to the school in the manner 1 20 prescribed for school districts pursuant to section 1 21 284.13. 1 22 2. The area education agencies in which the 1 23 schools are located shall work with the schools to 1 24 develop a plan for meeting the requirements of this 1 25 chapter, which shall be submitted to the department of 1 26 education, the state board of regents, and the general 1 27 assembly by January 14, 2008. This subsection is 1 28 repealed July 1, 2008.>> 1 29 #2. By renumbering as necessary. 1 30 1 31 1 32 1 33 JOHN PUTNEY 1 34 1 35 1 36 1 37 HUBERT HOUSER 1 38 E. THURMAN GASKILL 1 39 JAMES A. SEYMOUR 1 40 DAVID JOHNSON 1 41 PAT WARD 1 42 NANCY J. BOETTGER 1 43 JEFF ANGELO 1 44 STEVE KETTERING 1 45 RON WIECK 1 46 JAMES F. HAHN 1 47 LARRY McKIBBEN 1 48 SF 277.720 82 1 49 kh/gg/8220 1 50 -1-