Bill Text: TX HB2672 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility for student loan repayment assistance under the math and science scholars loan repayment program.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 13-3)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-18 - Reported from s/c with no recommendation [HB2672 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2672-Engrossed.html
88R10965 MM-D | ||
By: Frazier, Leo-Wilson, Swanson, Lalani, | H.B. No. 2672 | |
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relating to the eligibility for student loan repayment assistance | ||
under the math and science scholars loan repayment program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 61.9831, Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 61.9831. LOAN REPAYMENT ASSISTANCE AUTHORIZED. The | ||
board shall provide, in accordance with this subchapter and board | ||
rules, assistance in the repayment of eligible student loans for | ||
eligible persons who agree to teach mathematics or science for a | ||
specified period in public schools [ |
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SECTION 2. Sections 61.9832(a) and (c), Education Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) To be eligible to receive loan repayment assistance | ||
under this subchapter, a person must: | ||
(1) apply annually for the loan repayment assistance | ||
in the manner prescribed by the board; | ||
(2) be a United States citizen; | ||
(3) have completed an undergraduate or graduate | ||
program in mathematics or science; | ||
(4) have a cumulative grade point average of at least | ||
3.0 on a four-point scale or the equivalent; | ||
(5) be: | ||
(A) certified under Subchapter B, Chapter 21, to | ||
teach mathematics or science in a public school in this state; or | ||
(B) teaching under a probationary teaching | ||
certificate; | ||
(6) have been employed for at least one year as a | ||
teacher teaching mathematics or science at a public school [ |
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(7) not be in default on any other education loan; | ||
(8) not receive any other state or federal loan | ||
repayment assistance, including a Teacher Education Assistance for | ||
College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grant or teacher loan | ||
forgiveness; | ||
(9) enter into an agreement with the board under | ||
Subsection (c); and | ||
(10) comply with any other requirement adopted by the | ||
board under this subchapter. | ||
(c) To receive loan repayment assistance under this | ||
subchapter, a person must enter into an agreement with the board | ||
that includes the following provisions: | ||
(1) the person will accept an offer of full-time | ||
employment to teach mathematics or science, as applicable based on | ||
the person's certification, in a public school [ |
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(2) the person will complete four consecutive years of | ||
employment in any public school as a full-time classroom teacher | ||
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teach mathematics or science, as applicable, based on the person's | ||
certification; | ||
(3) beginning with the school year immediately | ||
following the last of the four consecutive school years described | ||
by Subdivision (2), the person will complete an additional number | ||
of consecutive school years teaching in any public school in this | ||
state, as prescribed by board rule; and | ||
(4) the person acknowledges the conditional nature of | ||
the loan repayment assistance. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 61.9839(a), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) Subject to Sections 61.9833(b) and 61.9838(c), an [ |
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eligible person may continue to receive the same amount of loan | ||
repayment assistance received during the first four consecutive | ||
years of teaching service required under Section 61.9832(c)(2) if | ||
the person continues to teach in a public school in accordance with | ||
board rules for the prescribed number of consecutive school years | ||
occurring immediately after those [ |
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SECTION 4. Section 61.9839(b), Education Code, is repealed. | ||
SECTION 5. (a) As soon as practicable after the effective | ||
date of this Act, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board | ||
shall adopt rules necessary to administer Sections 61.9831, | ||
61.9832, and 61.9839, Education Code, as amended by this Act. | ||
(b) Sections 61.9831, 61.9832, and 61.9839, Education Code, | ||
as amended by this Act, apply only to a loan repayment assistance | ||
agreement entered into under Subchapter KK, Chapter 61, Education | ||
Code, on or after the effective date of this Act. A loan repayment | ||
assistance agreement entered into before the effective date of this | ||
Act is governed by the law in effect immediately before that date, | ||
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |