By Price H.B. No. 1686
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the repayment of certain teacher education loans.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter M, Chapter 61, Education Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 61.702. Eligibility. (a) To be eligible to receive
1-7 repayment assistance, a teacher must:
1-8 (1) apply to the coordinating board; and
1-9 (2) have completed at least one year of employment in
1-10 an [the] elementary or secondary school [schools] of this state in
1-11 an area, [or] field or region with an [of] acute teacher shortage
1-12 as designated by the State Board for Educator Certification [of
1-13 Education].
1-14 (b) The coordinating board may provide by rule for repayment
1-15 assistance on a pro rata basis for teachers employed full-time or
1-16 part-time in an elementary or secondary school of this state in an
1-17 area, [or] field or region with an [of] acute teacher shortage as
1-18 designated by the State Board for Educator Certification [of
1-19 Education].
1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.