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1997 SESSION
HB 2689 Minorities in Teaching Program.
Introduced by: Mary T. Christian | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY:
Minorities in Teaching Program. Makes the Minorities in Teaching Program a part of the Virginia Teaching Scholarship Loan Program and reconciles current law to the provisions in Item 135 B of the 1996-1998 Appropriation Act. The bill requires scholarship recipients to repay the loan by teaching one year for each year in which they were beneficiaries of a loan in subject areas where there is a critical shortage of teachers (i.e., science, foreign languages, special education or physics); in school divisions with high concentrations of at-risk students; in elementary and middle school grade levels, or in geographical regions of the state where minority and male teachers are under-represented.
The Minorities in Teaching Program was established by the 1996 General Assembly to increase the numbers of minorities in the teaching profession. Concomitantly, the Virginia Teaching Scholarship Loan Program was established in the Appropriation Act of 1996-1998 to provide certain eligibility criteria for scholarship recipients and funding in the amount of $600,000 for the biennium for the scholarship program and to complement the Minorities in Teaching Program. Currently, there is no requirement that scholarship recipients repay the loan or teach in critical shortage areas or underserved regions of the state. The bill establishes a means by which scholarship recipients may repay the loan through teaching service in the aforementioned areas and, by so doing, help the State address the shortage of certain teachers and meet the educational needs of children.
This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Subcommittee Studying the Status and Needs of African-American Males in Virginia.
FULL TEXT
- 01/20/97 House: Presented & ordered printed 971687188 pdf
- 02/13/97 Senate: Committee substitute printed 971718148-S1 pdf
- 03/03/97 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2689ER) pdf
- 04/02/97 House: Reenrolled bill text (HB2689ER) pdf
- 04/10/97 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0899) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/20/97 House: Presented & ordered printed 971687188
- 01/20/97 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/22/97 House: Assigned to Education sub-committee: 4
- 01/24/97 House: Reported from Education (20-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/97 House: Read first time
- 01/28/97 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 01/29/97 House: Read third time and passed House (Block Vote) (100-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/97 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/97 House: Communicated to Senate
- 01/30/97 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 2-N)
- 01/30/97 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/13/97 Senate: Reported from Ed. & H. with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/97 Senate: Committee substitute printed 971718148-S1
- 02/14/97 Senate: Const. reading disp., passed by for the day (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/97 Senate: VOTE: CONST. READING DISPENSED (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/97 Senate: Read third time
- 02/17/97 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/17/97 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 971718148-S1
- 02/17/97 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - comm. sub. 971718148-S1
- 02/17/97 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/97 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/97 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/19/97 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/20/97 House: Senate substitute agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/97 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (96-Y 0-N)
- 03/03/97 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2689ER)
- 03/11/97 House: Enrolled
- 03/12/97 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/13/97 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/24/97 House: Governor's recommendation received by House
- 04/02/97 House: House concurred in Gov's rec. (Block Vote) (99-Y 0-N)
- 04/02/97 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE ADOPTION (99-Y 0-N)
- 04/02/97 Senate: Senate concurred in Gov's recommendation (39-Y 0-N)
- 04/02/97 Senate: VOTE: (39-Y 0-N)
- 04/02/97 Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted
- 04/02/97 House: Reenrolled
- 04/02/97 House: Reenrolled bill text (HB2689ER)
- 04/02/97 House: Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- 04/02/97 Senate: Signed by President as reenrolled
- 04/02/97 House: Enacted, Chapter 899 (effective 7/1/97)
- 04/10/97 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0899)