CHAPTER 1031Community college career and technical education instructor qualificationsH.F. 2454AN ACT relating to qualifications for community college career and technical education instructors.Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa:   Section 1.   Section 260C.48, subsection 1, paragraph a, Code 2020, is amended to read as follows:   a.  (1)  Instructors in the subject area of career and technical education shall be registered, certified, or licensed in the occupational area in which the state requires registration, certification, or licensure, and shall hold the appropriate registration, certificate, or license for the occupational area in which the instructor is teaching, and shall meet either at least one of the following qualifications:   (1)  (a)  A Possess a baccalaureate or graduate degree in the area or a related area of study or occupational area in which the instructor is teaching teaches classes, or possesses a baccalaureate degree in any area of study if at least eighteen of the credit hours completed were in the career and technical field of instruction in which the instructor teaches classes.   (2)  (b)  Special Possess an associate degree in the career and technical education field of instruction in which the instructor is teaching, if such degree is considered terminal for that field of instruction, and have at least three thousand hours of recent and relevant work experience in the occupational area or related occupational area in which the instructor teaches classes.   (c)  Have special training and at least six thousand hours of recent and relevant work experience in the occupational area or related occupational area in which the instructor teaches classes if the instructor possesses less than a baccalaureate degree in the area or related area of study or occupational area in which the instructor is teaching classes and the instructor does not meet the requirements of subparagraph (2).    (2)  If For purposes of See chapter 1121, §64 herein subparagraph divisions (b) and (c), if the instructor is a licensed practitioner who holds a career and technical endorsement under chapter 272, relevant work experience in the occupational area includes but is not limited to classroom instruction in a career and technical education subject area offered by a school district or accredited nonpublic school.Approved June 1, 2020