Bill Text: FL S0148 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Resident Status for Tuition Purposes

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2015-05-01 - Died in Higher Education [S0148 Detail]

Download: Florida-2015-S0148-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2015                                     SB 148
       
       
        
       By Senator Ring
       
       
       
       
       
       29-00216-15                                            2015148__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to resident status for tuition
    3         purposes; amending s. 1009.21, F.S.; revising criteria
    4         relating to the classification of active duty members
    5         of the Armed Services of the United States, and their
    6         spouses and dependent children, as residents for
    7         tuition purposes; classifying veterans of the Armed
    8         Services of the United States, and their spouses and
    9         dependent children, as residents for tuition purposes
   10         under certain circumstances; providing an effective
   11         date.
   12          
   13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   15         Section 1. Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (10) of
   16  section 1009.21, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
   17         1009.21 Determination of resident status for tuition
   18  purposes.—Students shall be classified as residents or
   19  nonresidents for the purpose of assessing tuition in
   20  postsecondary educational programs offered by charter technical
   21  career centers or career centers operated by school districts,
   22  in Florida College System institutions, and in state
   23  universities.
   24         (10) The following persons shall be classified as residents
   25  for tuition purposes:
   26         (a) Active duty members of the Armed Services of the United
   27  States residing or stationed in this state, and their spouses,
   28  and dependent children, and active drilling members of the
   29  Florida National Guard.
   30         (b) Veterans Active duty members of the Armed Services of
   31  the United States, and their spouses and dependent children, who
   32  initially apply to an institution of higher education within 4
   33  years after the servicemember’s honorable discharge from the
   34  Armed Services of the United States dependents attending a
   35  Florida College System institution or state university within 50
   36  miles of the military establishment where they are stationed, if
   37  such military establishment is within a county contiguous to
   38  Florida.
   39         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.