YES:
MR. SPEAKER:
Your Committee on Education , to which was referred House Bill 1443 , has had
the same under consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the House with the
recommendation that said bill be amended as follows:
SAT or ACT examination;
(2) graduated from a four-year post-secondary educational
institution with at least a 3.5 grade point average on a 4.0
scale or its equivalent; and
(3) teach:
(A) for at three (3) consecutive years in public schools in
Indiana; and
(B) science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or
special education classes, or in a critical shortage area;".
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under subsection" and insert " At the end of the third consecutive
school year in which a teacher who qualifies under subsection (a)
has taught, the commission shall pay directly to the financial
institution that holds the qualified teacher's student loans an
amount not to exceed the lesser of:
(1) the total principal and interest of the guaranteed student
loans owed by the teacher at the end of the third year; or
(2) nine thousand dollars ($9,000);
which must be used to reduce the principal and interest on a
guaranteed student loan owed by that qualified teacher.".
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(1) apply for the loan repayment assistance not later than
twenty-four (24) months after graduating from a
post-secondary educational institution; and
(2)".
and when so amended that said bill do pass.