Senate
File
547
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Reprinted
SENATE
FILE
547
BY
COMMITTEE
ON
EDUCATION
(SUCCESSOR
TO
SF
304)
(As
Amended
and
Passed
by
the
Senate
March
29,
2021
)
A
BILL
FOR
An
Act
relating
to
applicant
priority
and
grant
award
amounts
1
under
the
teach
Iowa
scholar
program.
2
BE
IT
ENACTED
BY
THE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
OF
THE
STATE
OF
IOWA:
3
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Section
1.
Section
261.110,
subsections
2
and
4,
Code
2021,
1
are
amended
to
read
as
follows:
2
2.
An
Iowa
resident
or
nonresident
applicant
shall
be
3
eligible
for
a
teach
Iowa
scholar
grant
if
the
applicant
4
meets
all
of
the
criteria
specified
under,
or
established
in
5
accordance
with,
subsection
3
.
Priority
shall
be
given
first
6
to
applicants
seeking
to
renew
their
grant
awards
and
who
7
continue
to
meet
the
original
priority
criteria
under
which
8
such
applicants’
first
awards
were
received;
then
to
applicants
9
who
are
graduates
of
approved
practitioner
preparation
10
programs,
by
academic
year,
with
the
most
recent
academic
year
11
graduates
given
priority;
then
to
applicants
who
are
minority
12
persons
and
residents
of
Iowa;
then
to
applicants
who
are
13
residents
of
Iowa.
A
person
is
ineligible
for
this
program
if
14
the
person
receives
a
forgivable
loan
under
section
261.111
or
15
loan
forgiveness
under
section
261.112
.
For
purposes
of
this
16
section,
“minority
person”
means
the
same
as
defined
in
section
17
15.102.
18
4.
A
selected
applicant
who
meets
all
of
the
eligibility
19
requirements
of
this
section
shall
be
eligible
for
a
teach
20
Iowa
scholar
grant
for
each
year
of
full-time
employment
21
completed
in
this
state
as
a
teacher
for
a
school
district,
22
charter
school,
area
education
agency,
or
accredited
nonpublic
23
school.
A
teach
Iowa
scholar
grant
shall
not
exceed
four
seven
24
thousand
five
hundred
dollars
per
year
per
recipient.
Grants
25
awarded
under
this
section
shall
not
exceed
a
total
of
twenty
26
thirty-seven
thousand
five
hundred
dollars
per
recipient
over
27
a
five-year
period.
If
a
selected
applicant
has
received
a
28
federally
guaranteed
Stafford
loan
under
the
federal
family
29
education
loan
program
or
the
federal
direct
loan
program,
30
a
federal
direct
plus
loan,
or
a
federal
Perkins
loan,
the
31
selected
applicant
may
elect
to
have
the
commission
make
32
payment
under
the
program
directly
to
the
selected
applicant’s
33
student
loan
holder.
34
Sec.
2.
Section
261.110,
subsection
3,
paragraph
b,
Code
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2021,
is
amended
to
read
as
follows:
1
b.
The
applicant
is
preparing
to
teach
in
fields
including
2
but
not
limited
to
science,
technology,
engineering,
or
3
mathematics;
English
as
a
second
language
or
special
education
4
instruction;
or
is
preparing
to
teach
in
a
hard-to-staff
5
subject
as
identified
by
the
department
;
or
is
preparing
to
6
teach
in
a
school
district
in
which
more
than
twenty-five
7
percent
of
the
students
enrolled
are
minority
persons
.
The
8
department
shall
take
into
account
the
varying
regional
9
needs
in
the
state
for
teachers
in
these
subject
areas
when
10
applying
the
criterion
of
this
paragraph.
The
department
11
shall
annually
identify
and
designate
hard-to-staff
subjects
12
for
the
purpose
of
this
paragraph.
The
eligibility
of
an
13
applicant
who
receives
a
teach
Iowa
scholar
grant
and
who
is
14
preparing
to
teach
in
a
hard-to-staff
subject
as
identified
by
15
the
department
shall
not
be
affected
in
subsequent
years
if
16
the
department
does
not
continue
to
identify
that
subject
as
a
17
hard-to-staff
subject.
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