H-1030

   Amend House File 255 as follows:
   1.  By striking everything after the enacting clause and inserting: 
   <Section 1.  Section 256.16, subsection 1, Code 2023, is amended by adding the following new paragraph:
   NEW PARAGRAPH.  m.  If a higher education institution providing practitioner preparation offers a program that is designed to assist students in attaining a teacher intern license from the board of educational examiners, the program shall require participants to satisfy all of the following requirements before completing the program:
   (1)  A participant in the program must have graduated from an accredited or state-approved college or university and must meet the requirements for an endorsement area approved by the board of educational examiners for a teacher intern license.
   (2)  A participant in the program must submit with the application to the program a copy of an offer of employment from a school.
   (3)  A participant in the program must complete the required pedagogy training.
   (4)  A participant in the program must work under the supervision of a teacher leader assigned by the school district or accredited nonpublic school, including during co-teaching and planning time.
   Sec. 2.  Section 272.2, subsection 13, Code 2023, is amended to read as follows:
   13.  Adopt rules to provide for nontraditional preparation options for licensing persons who hold a bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited or state-approved college or university, who do not meet other requirements for licensure.  The rules shall, at a minimum, require the board to do all of the following:
   a.  Issue a teacher intern license to an applicant who has enrolled in a program established pursuant to section 256.16, subsection 1, paragraph “m”.
   b.  Allow a licensee who has attained a teacher intern license pursuant to paragraph “a” to apply for an initial teaching license if the school that employed the licensee during the licensee’s completion of the program established pursuant to section 256.16, subsection 1, paragraph “m”, and the higher education institution that operated the program, recommend that the licensee be allowed to apply for an initial teaching license.
   Sec. 3.  Section 272.2, Code 2023, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  26.  Adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A that allow an individual seeking a career and technical secondary authorization to apply, and if eligible, be issued the secondary authorization prior to accepting an offer of employment with a school.>
   2.  Title page, by striking lines 3 through 6 and inserting <by the board of educational examiners.>

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STECKMAN of Cerro Gordo