Bill Text: FL S0500 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: State University Fee Exemptions

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-07 - Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration [S0500 Detail]

Download: Florida-2011-S0500-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2011                                     SB 500
       
       
       
       By Senator Oelrich
       
       
       
       
       14-00712-11                                            2011500__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to state university fee exemptions;
    3         providing a short title; amending s. 1009.25, F.S.;
    4         providing exemption from the payment of tuition and
    5         fees for students enrolled in certain foreign language
    6         courses offered at a state university; providing for
    7         repeal unless reviewed and reenacted by the
    8         Legislature; providing an effective date.
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   10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   12         Section 1. This act may be cited as the “Student Global
   13  Economic Education Act.”
   14         Section 2. Subsection (4) is added to section 1009.25,
   15  Florida Statutes, to read:
   16         1009.25 Fee exemptions.—
   17         (4) A student who has taken an initial semester course in
   18  Mandarin or Portuguese at a state university and has received a
   19  grade of B or higher for the course shall be exempt from the
   20  payment of tuition and fees for each additional course in the
   21  same language in which the student is enrolled at a state
   22  university. This subsection is repealed July 1, 2016, unless
   23  reviewed and reenacted by the Legislature before that date.
   24         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.