2006 Ohio Revised Code - 3319.55. Grants for teachers holding certificates or licenses issued by national board.

§ 3319.55. Grants for teachers holding certificates or licenses issued by national board.
 

(A)  A grant program is hereby established to recognize and reward teachers in public and chartered nonpublic schools who hold valid teaching certificates or licenses issued by the national board for professional teaching standards. The superintendent of public instruction shall administer this program in accordance with this section and rules which the state board of education shall adopt in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. 
 

In each fiscal year that the general assembly appropriates funds for purposes of this section, the superintendent of public instruction shall award a grant to each person who, by the first day of April of that year and in accordance with the rules adopted under this section, submits to the superintendent evidence indicating all of the following: 

(1) The person holds a valid certificate or license issued by the national board for professional teaching standards; 

(2) The person has been employed full-time as a teacher by the board of education of a school district or by a chartered nonpublic school in this state during the current school year; 

(3) The date the person was accepted into the national board certification or licensure program. 

An individual may receive a grant under this section in each fiscal year the person is eligible for a grant and submits evidence of that eligibility in accordance with this section. No person may receive a grant after the expiration of the person's initial certification or license issued by the national board. 

(B)  The amount of the grant awarded to each eligible person under division (A) of this section in any fiscal year shall equal the following: 

(1) Two thousand five hundred dollars for any teacher accepted as a candidate for certification or licensure by the national board on or before May 31, 2003, and issued a certificate or license by the national board on or before December 31, 2004; 

(2) One thousand dollars for any other teacher issued a certificate or license by the national board. 

However, if the funds appropriated for purposes of this section in any fiscal year are not sufficient to award the full grant amount to each person who is eligible in that fiscal year, the superintendent shall prorate the amount of the grant awarded in that fiscal year to each eligible person. 
 

HISTORY: 146 v H 117. Eff 6-30-95; 150 v H 95, § 1, eff. 9-26-03; 150 v H 106, § 1, eff. 9-16-04; 150 v H 493, § 1, eff. 5-18-05; 151 v H 66, § 101.01, eff. 9-29-05.
 

The effective date is set by § 612.03 of 151 v H 66. 

The provisions of § 3 of H.B. 493 (150 v  - ) read as follows: 

SECTION 3. (A) The Department of Education shall pay a stipend to each person who meets the following conditions: 

(1) The person holds or held a certificate or license issued by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards that was valid in the 2003-2004 school year. 

(2) The person was employed full-time as a teacher by a chartered nonpublic school in the 2003-2004 school year. 

(3) The person did not receive a stipend under section 3319.55 of the Revised Code for the 2003-2004 school year. 

(B) Each person who wishes to receive the stipend shall submit to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, by a date set by the Superintendent that is not earlier than the sixty-first day after the effective date of this section, evidence indicating satisfaction of the conditions prescribed in division (A) of this section and evidence indicating the date the person was accepted into the National Board certification or licensure program. 

(C) The stipend paid to each eligible person under this section shall be in the amount of a stipend paid under section 3319.55 of the Revised Code for the 2003-2004 school year to a similarly certificated or licensed teacher employed by a school district board of education. 

(D) The Department shall pay stipends under this section from funds earmarked by Section 41.03 of Am. Sub. H.B. 95 of the 125th General Assembly, as amended, from appropriation item 200-410, Professional Development, to pay stipends under section 3319.55 of the Revised Code. The Department first shall use funds so earmarked for fiscal year 2004 that are encumbered but not expended prior to the effective date of this section. If those funds are not sufficient to pay all stipends under this section, the Department next shall use funds so earmarked for fiscal year 2005. 

The effective date is set by section 179 of H.B. 95 (150 v  - ). 

 

Effect of Amendments

151 v H 66, effective September 29, 2005, added the last sentence to the last paragraph of (A). 

150 v H 493, effective May 18, 2005, in (A), substituted "teachers in public and chartered nonpublic schools" for "public school teachers" in the first paragraph, and inserted "or by a chartered nonpublic school" in (2). 

150 v H 106, effective September 16, 2004, substituted "April" for "August" in the second paragraph of (A); and, in (A)(2), substituted "has been" for "was" and "current school year" for "school year that immediately preceded the fiscal year". 

H.B. 95, Acts 2003, effective September 26, 2003, substituted "all" for "both" in the second paragraph of (A); added (A)(3); and rewrote (B).