AN ACT to prohibit the state board of education from requiring an out‑of‑state applicant for a continuing professional teaching license to complete an examination as a condition of licensure.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 115C‑270.25 reads as rewritten:

§ 115C‑270.25.  Out‑of‑state license applicants.

(a)        The State Board of Education shall grant a CPL to an applicant who is a teacher licensed in another state with substantially similar licensure requirements who and has at least three years of teaching experience and is in good standing with the other state.

(b)        The State Board of Education shall not require an out‑of‑state license applicant to complete or have completed any type of standardized examination as a condition of receiving a CPL pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to out‑of‑state license applications submitted on or after that date.