PA HB1403

Inactive teaching certification must be granted at no cost to professional educators who are not employed by a school entity

Extends the timeframe for completing 30 hours of continuing professional education to remove inactive certification from 12 months to 18 months

Creates new pathway to remove inactive certification when an educator receives a job offer from a school entity that commits to provide 30 hours of in-service continuing professional education within the educator's first two years of employment

Professional educators whose inactive certification is removed retain the same continuing education hours and compliance timeline they had when certification became inactive

Educators whose certificates were placed on inactive status due to expired compliance periods must begin a new five-year compliance period upon reactivation