Bill Text: FL S0884 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Workforce Education Postsecondary Student Fees
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2015-05-01 - Died in Higher Education [S0884 Detail]
Download: Florida-2015-S0884-Introduced.html
Florida Senate - 2015 SB 884 By Senator Bullard 39-01310-15 2015884__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to workforce education postsecondary 3 student fees; amending s. 1009.22, F.S.; removing 4 adult general education program student fees; amending 5 s. 1011.80, F.S.; conforming provisions; providing an 6 effective date. 7 8 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 9 10 Section 1. Paragraphs (a) and (c) of subsection (3) of 11 section 1009.22, Florida Statutes, are amended to read: 12 1009.22 Workforce education postsecondary student fees.— 13 (3)(a) Except as otherwise provided by law, fees for 14 students who are nonresidents for tuition purposes must offset 15 the full cost of instruction. Residency of students shall be 16 determined as required in s. 1009.21.Fee-nonexempt students17enrolled in applied academics for adult education instruction18shall be charged fees equal to the fees charged for adult19general education programs.Each Florida College System 20 institution that conducts developmental education and applied 21 academics for adult education instruction in the same class 22 section may charge a single fee for both types of instruction. 23 (c) Effective July 1, 2014, for programs leading to a 24 career certificate or an applied technology diploma, the 25 standard tuition shall be $2.33 per contact hour for residents 26 and nonresidents and the out-of-state fee shall be $6.99 per 27 contact hour.For adult general education programs, a block28tuition of $45 per half year or $30 per term shall be assessed.29Each district school board and Florida College System30institution board of trustees shall adopt policies and31procedures for the collection of and accounting for the32expenditure of the block tuition. All funds received from the33block tuition shall be used only for adult general education34programs.Students enrolled in adult general education programs 35 may not be assessed the feesauthorized in subsection (5),36subsection (6), or subsection (7). 37 Section 2. Subsection (10) of section 1011.80, Florida 38 Statutes, is amended to read: 39 1011.80 Funds for operation of workforce education 40 programs.— 41 (10) A high school student dually enrolled under s. 42 1007.271 in a workforce education program operated by a Florida 43 College System institution or school district career center 44 generates the amount calculated for workforce education funding, 45 including any payment of performance funding, and the 46 proportional share of full-time equivalent enrollment generated 47 through the Florida Education Finance Program for the student’s 48 enrollment in a high school. If a high school student is dually 49 enrolled in a Florida College System institution program, 50 including a program conducted at a high school, the Florida 51 College System institution earns the funds generated for 52 workforce education funding, and the school district earns the 53 proportional share of full-time equivalent funding from the 54 Florida Education Finance Program. If a student is dually 55 enrolled in a career center operated by the same district as the 56 district in which the student attends high school, that district 57 earns the funds generated for workforce education funding and 58 also earns the proportional share of full-time equivalent 59 funding from the Florida Education Finance Program. If a student 60 is dually enrolled in a workforce education program provided by 61 a career center operated by a different school district, the 62 funds must be divided between the two school districts 63 proportionally from the two funding sources. A student may not 64 be reported for funding in a dual enrollment workforce education 65 program unless the student has completed the basic skills 66 assessment pursuant to s. 1004.91. A student who is coenrolled 67 in a K-12 education program and an adult education program may 68 be reported for purposes of funding in an adult education 69 program. If a student is coenrolled in core curricula courses 70 for credit recovery or dropout prevention purposes and does not 71 have a pattern of excessive absenteeism or habitual truancy or a 72 history of disruptive behavior in school, the student may be 73 reported for funding for up to two courses per year.Such a74student is exempt from the payment of the block tuition for75adult general education programs provided in s. 1009.22(3)(c).76 The Department of Education shall develop a list of courses to 77 be designated as core curricula courses for the purposes of 78 coenrollment. 79 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.