Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF3273

Establishing the teacher loan forgiveness program to assist communities with
recruiting and retaining teachers; creating the teacher loan forgiveness program
account, providing an annual appropriation from the account to the commissioner
of children, families and learning to repay loans of students enrolled in
teacher education programs designed for teaching in a teacher shortage field as
determined by the state board of teaching; requiring the commissioner to adopt
implementation rules and to select the school districts qualifying for loan
repayment, duties; specifying school district qualification and student
eligibility requirements; providing for loan forgiveness; imposing a penalty for
failure to fulfill the length of service requirement (je)