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SENATE BILL NO. 1575 Offered January 9, 2019 Prefiled January 9, 2019 A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-299 of the Code of Virginia, relating to teacher licensure; exemption for certain teachers. ---------- Patrons-- Ebbin and Suetterlein ---------- Referred to Committee on Education and Health ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 22.1-299 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 22.1-299. License required of teachers; provisional licenses; exceptions.

A. No Except as otherwise provided in subsection D and § 22.1-199.6, no teacher shall be regularly employed by a school board or paid from public funds unless such teacher holds a license or provisional license issued by the Board.

B. Notwithstanding the provision in § 22.1-298.1 that the provisional license is limited to three years, the following exceptions shall apply:

1. If a teacher employed in the Commonwealth under a provisional license is activated or deployed for military service within a school year (July 1-June 30), an additional year shall be added to the teacher's provisional license for each school year or portion thereof during which the teacher is activated or deployed. The additional year shall be granted the year following the return of the teacher from deployment or activation.

2. The Board shall extend for at least one additional year, but for no more than two additional years, the three-year provisional license of a teacher upon receiving from the division superintendent (i) a recommendation for such extension and (ii) satisfactory performance evaluations for such teacher for each year of the original three-year provisional license.

C. In accordance with regulations prescribed by the Board, a person not meeting the requirements for a license or provisional license may be employed and paid from public funds by a school board temporarily as a substitute teacher to meet an emergency.

D. Any school board may employ any individual, who is employed by an accredited institution of higher education as an instructor, to teach relevant career and technical education courses or dual enrollment courses in the local school division, regardless of whether such individual holds a license issued by the Board. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prohibit school boards from establishing certain basic conditions for the employment of such teachers in addition to other conditions for employment that are prescribed by law.