Bill Text: IA HF215 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the qualifications for community college career and technical education instructors. (See Cmte. Bill HF 421)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-12 - Withdrawn. H.J. 559. [HF215 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-HF215-Introduced.html

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House File 215 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  BYRNES

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the qualifications for community college
  2    career and technical education instructors.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 260C.48, subsection 1, paragraph a,
  1  2 subparagraph (2), Code 2015, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    (2)  Special training and at least six thousand hours of
  1  4 recent and relevant work experience in the occupational area
  1  5 or related occupational area in which the instructor teaches
  1  6 classes if the instructor possesses less than a baccalaureate
  1  7 degree in the area or related area of study or occupational
  1  8 area in which the instructor is teaching classes.  If the
  1  9 instructor is a licensed practitioner who holds a career
  1 10 and technical endorsement under chapter 272, relevant work
  1 11 experience in the occupational area includes but is not limited
  1 12 to classroom instruction in a career and technical education
  1 13 subject area offered by a school district or accredited
  1 14 nonpublic school.
  1 15                           EXPLANATION
  1 16 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 17 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 18    Under current law, in order to qualify as a community
  1 19 college instructor in the subject area of career and technical
  1 20 education, a person must have a baccalaureate or graduate
  1 21 degree in the area or a related area of study or occupational
  1 22 area in which the community college instructor is teaching
  1 23 classes or must have special training and at least 6,000 hours
  1 24 of recent and relevant work experience in the occupational area
  1 25 or related area. This bill allows a licensed practitioner who
  1 26 holds a career and technical endorsement on the practitioner's
  1 27 Iowa practitioner license and who has work experience in a
  1 28 career and technical occupational area as a classroom teacher
  1 29 in a school district or accredited nonpublic school to count
  1 30 those hours of teaching toward the 6,000 hours of relevant work
  1 31 experience.
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