Bill Text: FL S0094 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Postsecondary Education Course Registration for Veterans

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-08 - Laid on Table, refer to CS/HB 45 -SJ 965 [S0094 Detail]

Download: Florida-2012-S0094-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2012                                      SB 94
       
       
       
       By Senator Fasano
       
       
       
       
       11-00147-12                                             201294__
    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.
   11  
   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 to
   29  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 and that 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.