BILL NUMBER: AB 899	CHAPTERED  09/11/00

	CHAPTER   371
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 11, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 8, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 23, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 22, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   AUGUST 8, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JUNE 28, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JANUARY 14, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JANUARY 3, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 28, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Alquist
   (Coauthor: Assembly Members Bock, Calderon, Strom-Martin, and
Zettel)
   (Coauthors:  Senators Bowen, Sher, and Solis)

                        FEBRUARY 25, 1999

   An act to add Section 69613.7 to the Education Code, relating to
student financial aid.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 899, Alquist.  Assumption Program of Loans for Education.
   Existing law establishes an assumption program of loans for
education, under which any person enrolled in a participating
institution of postsecondary education, or any person who agrees to
participate in a teacher trainee or teacher internship program, is
eligible to receive a conditional warrant for loan assumption, to be
redeemed pursuant to a prescribed procedure upon becoming employed as
a teacher.  Under the program, the Superintendent of Public
Instruction is required to furnish to the Student Aid Commission a
list of teaching fields that have the most critical shortage of
teachers.
   This bill would require that this list not include references to
teaching in a self-contained classroom or teaching pursuant to a
multiple subject credential.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 69613.7 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   69613.7.  (a) For the purposes of this article, "subject matter
shortage area" may not be construed to include teaching in a
self-contained classroom or teaching pursuant to a multiple subject
credential.
   (b) The list, furnished by the Superintendent of Public
Instruction pursuant to Section 69613.1 and relating to teaching
fields that have the most critical shortage of teachers, shall not
include teaching in a self-contained classroom or teaching pursuant
to a multiple subject credential.