CHAPTER 445

H.P. 714 - L.D. 957

An Act To Retain Teachers Holding Targeted Need Area

Certificates, Conditional Certificates or Transitional

Endorsements

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §13011, sub-§9, as enacted by PL 1999, c. 673, §1, is amended to read:

9. Targeted need area certificate; exception. The state board shall adopt rules that establish criteria under which a targeted need area certificate may be issued. This certificate may be issued only to a person holding a bachelor's degree and teaching in a teacher shortage area. The teacher shortage area is determined by the commissioner. Rules adopted pursuant to this subsection are major substantive rules in accordance with Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter II-A 2-A. Any amendment to the rules adopted pursuant to this subsection that revises the qualifications for a targeted need area certificate does not apply to a person who was issued a targeted need area certificate prior to or during the school year preceding the adoption of revisions to the original rules as long as the holder of the targeted need area certificate annually completes the required course work and testing as determined by the department for the school year preceding the adoption of revised rules.

Sec. 2. 20-A MRSA §13011, sub-§10 is enacted to read:

10.__Conditional certificate; transitional endorsement; exception.__Any amendment to the rules adopted pursuant to this