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Budget Amendments - HB30 (Member Request)

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Chief Patron: Krizek
HB380 Grow Your Own Teacher Program Fund and Programs

Item 135 #21h

Item 135 #21h

First Year - FY2019 Second Year - FY2020
Education
Direct Aid to Public Education FY2019 $750,000 FY2020 $750,000 NGF

Language
Page 108, line 2, strike "$29,443,983" and insert "$30,193,983".
Page 108, line 2, strike "$29,890,568" and insert "$30,640,568".

Page 108, after line 20, insert:

"Grow Your Own Teacher                     $750,000    $750,000".

Page 109, line 5, strike "$239,443,983" and "$29,890,568" and insert:

"$30,193,983" and "$30,640,568".

Page 115, after line 9, insert:

"GG. Out of this appropriation, $750,000 the first year and $750,000 the second year from the federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families block grant shall be provided for the fiscal impact of House Bill 380 which requires the Department of Education to award grants from such fund to local school boards to establish Grow Your Own Teacher Programs whereby the local school board provides scholarships not to exceed $7,500 per academic year for attendance at a baccalaureate institution of higher education in the Commonwealth to any individual who (i) graduated from a public high school in the local school division; (ii) was eligible for free or reduced price lunch throughout the individual's attendance at a public high school in the local school division; and (iii) commits to teach, within three years of graduating from the baccalaureate institution of higher education in the Commonwealth and for a period of at least four years, in the school division at a public high school at which at least 50 percent of students qualify for free or reduced price lunch. I n the event that any program scholarship recipient fails or refuses to comply with such teaching obligation, the sum of all scholarship funds received by such individual shall be converted to a loan that is subject to repayment to the Commonwealth with accrued interest."



Explanation

(This amendment provides $750,000 each year from the federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families block grant for the fiscal impact of House Bill 380 which requires the Department of Education to award grants from such funds to local school boards to establish Grow Your Own Teacher Programs, pursuant to the House Bill 380. Funding is contingent on its passage.)