House File 868 H-1456 Amend House File 868 as follows: 1 1. Page 21, after line 31 by inserting: 2 < Sec. ___. Section 261.110, subsections 2 and 4, Code 2021, 3 are amended to read as follows: 4 2. An Iowa resident or nonresident applicant shall be 5 eligible for a teach Iowa scholar grant if the applicant 6 meets all of the criteria specified under, or established in 7 accordance with, subsection 3 . Priority shall be given first 8 to applicants seeking to renew their grant awards and who 9 continue to meet the original priority criteria under which 10 such applicants’ first awards were received; then to applicants 11 who are graduates of approved practitioner preparation 12 programs, by academic year, with the most recent academic year 13 graduates given priority; then to applicants who are minority 14 persons and residents of Iowa; then to applicants who are 15 residents of Iowa. A person is ineligible for this program if 16 the person receives a forgivable loan under section 261.111 or 17 loan forgiveness under section 261.112 . For purposes of this 18 section, “minority person” means the same as defined in section 19 15.102. 20 4. A selected applicant who meets all of the eligibility 21 requirements of this section shall be eligible for a teach 22 Iowa scholar grant for each year of full-time employment 23 completed in this state as a teacher for a school district, 24 charter school, area education agency, or accredited nonpublic 25 school. A teach Iowa scholar grant shall not exceed four seven 26 thousand five hundred dollars per year per recipient. Grants 27 awarded under this section shall not exceed a total of twenty 28 thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars per recipient over 29 a five-year period. If a selected applicant has received a 30 federally guaranteed Stafford loan under the federal family 31 education loan program or the federal direct loan program, 32 a federal direct plus loan, or a federal Perkins loan, the 33 selected applicant may elect to have the commission make 34 payment under the program directly to the selected applicant’s 35 -1- HF 868.2084 (1) 89 1/ 3 #1.
student loan holder. 1 Sec. ___. Section 261.110, subsection 3, paragraph b, Code 2 2021, is amended to read as follows: 3 b. The applicant is preparing to teach in fields including 4 but not limited to science, technology, engineering, or 5 mathematics; English as a second language or special education 6 instruction; or is preparing to teach in a hard-to-staff 7 subject as identified by the department ; or is preparing to 8 teach in a school district in which more than twenty-five 9 percent of the students enrolled are minority persons . The 10 department shall take into account the varying regional 11 needs in the state for teachers in these subject areas when 12 applying the criterion of this paragraph. The department 13 shall annually identify and designate hard-to-staff subjects 14 for the purpose of this paragraph. The eligibility of an 15 applicant who receives a teach Iowa scholar grant and who is 16 preparing to teach in a hard-to-staff subject as identified by 17 the department shall not be affected in subsequent years if 18 the department does not continue to identify that subject as a 19 hard-to-staff subject. > 20 2. By renumbering as necessary. 21 ______________________________ SMITH of Black Hawk ______________________________ ABDUL-SAMAD of Polk ______________________________ WILBURN of Story -2- HF 868.2084 (1) 89 2/ 3 #2.
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