Bill Text: TX SB1757 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to student loan repayment assistance under the math and science scholars loan repayment program.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB1757 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1757-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to student loan repayment assistance under the math and science scholars loan repayment program.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB1757 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1757-Introduced.html
86R10068 SOS-D | ||
By: Creighton | S.B. No. 1757 |
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relating to 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 61.9832, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (a) and (c) and adding Subsection (c-1) 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 [ |
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(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 that | ||
receives funding under Title I, Elementary and Secondary Education | ||
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. Section 6301 et seq.); | ||
(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 that receives | ||
funding under Title I, Elementary and Secondary Education Act of | ||
1965 (20 U.S.C. Section 6301 et seq.); | ||
(2) the person will complete four consecutive years of | ||
employment as a full-time classroom teacher in a school described | ||
by Subdivision (1) whose primary duty is to 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 [ |
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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. | ||
(c-1) The rules adopted under Subsection (c)(3) may not | ||
require a person to complete more than four additional consecutive | ||
school years of teaching as described by that subdivision. | ||
SECTION 2. (a) As soon as practicable after the effective | ||
date of this Act, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board | ||
shall adopt rules necessary to administer Section 61.9832, | ||
Education Code, as amended by this Act. | ||
(b) Section 61.9832, Education Code, as amended by this Act, | ||
applies 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 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |