Bill Text: FL H0045 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Postsecondary Education Course Registration for Veterans

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 9-1-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-08 - Ordered enrolled -HJ 1243 [H0045 Detail]

Download: Florida-2012-H0045-Introduced.html

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HB 45

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to postsecondary education course
3	registration for veterans; creating s. 1004.075, F.S.;
4	requiring certain Florida College System institutions
5	and state universities to provide priority course
6	registration for veterans; providing eligibility
7	requirements; creating s. 1005.09, F.S.; encouraging
8	certain independent postsecondary educational
9	institutions to provide priority course registration
10	for veterans; providing an effective date.
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12	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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14	Section 1.  Section 1004.075, Florida Statutes, is created
15	to read:
16	1004.075  Priority course registration for veterans.-Each
17	Florida College System institution and state university that
18	offers priority course registration for a segment of the student
19	population, or upon implementation of priority course
20	registration for a segment of the student population, shall
21	provide priority course registration for each veteran of the
22	United States Armed Forces who is receiving GI Bill educational
23	benefits or for the spouse or dependent children of the veteran
24	to whom the GI Bill educational benefits have been transferred.
25	Each eligible veteran, or his or her spouse or dependent
26	children, shall be granted priority for course registration
27	until the expiration of the GI Bill educational benefits.
28	Section 2.  Section 1005.09, Florida Statutes, is created
29	to read:
30	1005.09  Priority course registration for veterans.-Each
31	independent postsecondary educational institution that is under
32	the jurisdiction of the commission or is exempt from the
33	jurisdiction of the commission which offers priority course
34	registration for a segment of the student population, or upon
35	implementation of priority course registration for a segment of
36	the student population, is encouraged to provide priority course
37	registration for each veteran of the United States Armed Forces,
38	or his or her spouse or dependent children, who is receiving GI
39	Bill educational benefits, in accordance with s. 1004.075.
40	Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2012.

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