Senate Bill sb1760

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    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 1760

    By Senator Wise





    5-568-03                                             See HB 31

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to student financial

  3         assistance; prohibiting state funds from being

  4         used to provide financial assistance to certain

  5         postsecondary education students who are

  6         citizens of specified countries; requiring the

  7         amount of funds used for such purpose in fiscal

  8         year 2001-2002 to be allocated annually to the

  9         Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program;

10         providing an effective date.

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12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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14         Section 1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law

15  to the contrary, no funds from general revenue, the lottery,

16  or financial aid fee revenues shall be used to provide student

17  financial assistance in the form of scholarships, fellowships,

18  grants, loans, tuition or fee waivers, or other financial

19  assistance to any nonresident alien student who is enrolled in

20  a Florida public postsecondary educational institution and who

21  is a citizen of any country that is identified by the United

22  States Department of State as terrorist or supporting

23  terrorism. A student's country of citizenship shall be

24  determined at the time of a student's enrollment. A

25  nonresident alien student who has been determined ineligible

26  pursuant to the provisions of this section shall remain

27  ineligible for such assistance while enrolled in a Florida

28  public postsecondary educational institution. However, if a

29  student's country of citizenship is removed from the United

30  States Department of State list of identified countries, such

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    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 1760
    5-568-03                                             See HB 31




  1  student shall become eligible for student financial assistance

  2  pursuant to the provisions of this section.

  3         Section 2.  The amount of state-funded student

  4  financial assistance provided by Florida public postsecondary

  5  educational institutions to students specified in section 1 of

  6  this act during fiscal year 2001-2002 shall be allocated

  7  annually for fiscal year 2003-2004 and each subsequent fiscal

  8  year to the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program. Such

  9  funds shall not be used to replace current-level funding for

10  the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program, but shall be

11  supplemental funds.

12         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2003.

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