Bill Text: FL S0318 | 2011 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Postsecondary Student Fees

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-07 - Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration [S0318 Detail]

Download: Florida-2011-S0318-Comm_Sub.html

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       Florida Senate - 2011                              CS for SB 318
       
       
       
       By the Committee on Judiciary; and Senator Siplin
       
       
       
       
       590-03802-11                                           2011318c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to postsecondary student fees;
    3         creating s. 1009.215, F.S.; providing an exemption
    4         from payment of nonresident tuition at a state
    5         university or a Florida College System institution for
    6         a student who meets specified requirements; requiring
    7         the Board of Governors of the State University System
    8         to adopt regulations and the State Board of Education
    9         to adopt rules; providing an effective date.
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   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   13         Section 1. Section 1009.215, Florida Statutes, is created
   14  to read:
   15         1009.215 Nonresident tuition exemption.—
   16         (1) Beginning with the 2011 fall term, a student, other
   17  than a nonimmigrant alien within the meaning of 8 U.S.C. s.
   18  1101(a)(15), is exempt from paying nonresident tuition at a
   19  state university or a Florida College System institution if the
   20  student meets all of the following requirements:
   21         (a) Attended high school in the state for 3 or more years,
   22  which need not be consecutive.
   23         (b) Graduated from a high school in the state or attained a
   24  high school equivalency diploma pursuant to s. 1003.435.
   25         (c) Registered as an entering student or is currently
   26  enrolled at a state university or a Florida College System
   27  institution.
   28         (d) In the case of a student without lawful immigration
   29  status, files an affidavit with the state university or the
   30  Florida College System institution stating that the student has
   31  filed an application to legalize his or her immigration status
   32  or will file an application as soon as he or she is eligible to
   33  do so.
   34         (2) The Board of Governors shall adopt regulations and the
   35  State Board of Education shall adopt rules to implement the
   36  nonresident tuition exemption provided in this section.
   37         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.