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PRINTER'S NO. 1737
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
1209
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY SCAVELLO, COSTA, SMUCKER, VULAKOVICH, BARTOLOTTA,
VOGEL, TOMLINSON, BREWSTER, BLAKE, BROWNE, YUDICHAK,
DINNIMAN, TEPLITZ AND HUGHES, APRIL 28, 2016
REFERRED TO EDUCATION, APRIL 28, 2016
AN ACT
Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An
act relating to the public school system, including certain
provisions applicable as well to private and parochial
schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the
laws relating thereto," in certification of teachers, further
providing for granting of provisional college certificates
and providing for provisional vocational education
certificates.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 1204 of the act of March 10, 1949
(P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949,
amended October 21, 1965 (P.L.601, No.312), is amended to read:
Section 1204. Granting Provisional College Certificates.--
The [Superintendent of Public Instruction] Secretary of
Education may grant a provisional college certificate to every
person who presents to [him] the Department of Education
satisfactory evidence of good moral character, and of being a
graduate of an approved college or university, who has completed
such work in education as may be required by the standards of
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the State Board of Education, and to every person who presents
to [him] the Department of Education satisfactory evidence of
good moral character, and of being a graduate of music, with the
degree of bachelor of music of an approved college or
university, who has during such musical course completed the
prescribed number of hours of professional studies, which
certificate shall entitle [him] the individual to teach for
three annual school terms, and may be renewed for one additional
three-year period in accordance with standards to be established
by the State Board of Education.
Section 2. The act is amended by adding a section to read:
Section 1204.2. Provisional Vocational Education
Certificate.--The Secretary of Education may grant a provisional
vocational education certificate to every person who presents to
the Department of Education satisfactory evidence of good moral
character, and who has completed such work in vocational
education as may be required by the standards of the State Board
of Education, which certificate shall entitle the individual to
teach for eight annual school terms.
Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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