Bill Text: IA SF2102 | 2019-2020 | 88th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to applicant priority and grant award amounts under the teach Iowa scholar program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-10 - Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage. [SF2102 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2019-SF2102-Introduced.html
Senate
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Introduced
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FILE
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BY
CARLIN
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:
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Section
1.
Section
261.110,
subsections
2
and
4,
Code
2020,
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
who
are
minority
persons,
then
to
applicants
who
7
are
residents
of
Iowa.
A
person
is
ineligible
for
this
program
8
if
the
person
receives
a
forgivable
loan
under
section
261.111
9
or
loan
forgiveness
under
section
261.112
.
For
purposes
of
10
this
section,
“minority
person”
means
the
same
as
defined
in
11
section
15.102.
12
4.
A
selected
applicant
who
meets
all
of
the
eligibility
13
requirements
of
this
section
shall
be
eligible
for
a
teach
14
Iowa
scholar
grant
for
each
year
of
full-time
employment
15
completed
in
this
state
as
a
teacher
for
a
school
district,
16
charter
school,
area
education
agency,
or
accredited
nonpublic
17
school.
A
teach
Iowa
scholar
grant
shall
not
exceed
four
seven
18
thousand
five
hundred
dollars
per
year
per
recipient.
Grants
19
awarded
under
this
section
shall
not
exceed
a
total
of
twenty
20
thirty-seven
thousand
five
hundred
dollars
per
recipient
over
21
a
five-year
period.
If
a
selected
applicant
has
received
a
22
federally
guaranteed
Stafford
loan
under
the
federal
family
23
education
loan
program
or
the
federal
direct
loan
program,
24
a
federal
direct
plus
loan,
or
a
federal
Perkins
loan,
the
25
selected
applicant
may
elect
to
have
the
commission
make
26
payment
under
the
program
directly
to
the
selected
applicant’s
27
student
loan
holder.
28
EXPLANATION
29
The
inclusion
of
this
explanation
does
not
constitute
agreement
with
30
the
explanation’s
substance
by
the
members
of
the
general
assembly.
31
This
bill
modifies
the
teach
Iowa
scholar
program
to
give
32
first
priority
to
applicants
who
are
minority
persons,
with
33
subsequent
priority
to
residents
of
Iowa,
and
raises
the
annual
34
grant
limitation
from
$4,000
to
$7,500
and
the
total
grant
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