HOUSE BILL NO. 414
INTRODUCED BY R. JOHNSON
BY REQUEST OF THE HOUSE JOINT APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
AN ACT REVISING THE ALLOCATION OF FEES FOR TEACHER AND SPECIALIST CERTIFICATES; AMENDING SECTION 20-4-109, MCA; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA:
Section 1. Section 20-4-109, MCA, is amended to read:
"20-4-109. Fees for teacher and specialist certificates. (1) A person applying for the issuance or renewal of a teacher or specialist certificate shall pay a fee not to exceed $6 for each school fiscal year that the certificate is valid. In addition to this fee, a person who has never held any class of Montana teacher or specialist certificate or for whom an emergency authorization of employment has never been issued shall pay a filing fee of $6. The fees must be paid to the superintendent of public instruction, who shall deposit the fees with the state treasurer to the credit of the state special revenue fund account, created in subsection (2), to be used in the following manner:
(a) $3 $4 for expenses of the certification standards and practices advisory council created in 2-15-1522;
(b) $3 $2 to the board of public education to be used by the certification standards and practices advisory council for
research in accordance with the duties of the council provided for in 20-4-133.
(2) There is an account in the state special revenue fund. Money from fees for teacher or specialist certificates required in subsection (1) must be deposited in the account."
Section 2. Effective date. [This act] is effective July 1, 1999.
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