Senate Bill sb2810e2

    SB 2810                                       Second Engrossed



  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to state university student

  3         athletic fees; amending s. 1009.24, F.S.;

  4         authorizing a fee increase to defray the costs

  5         of changing competitive divisions; providing

  6         that the increase may exceed the limit on fee

  7         increases; limiting such an increase to not

  8         more than $2 per credit hour; requiring

  9         approval of such increase; providing that such

10         increase shall not be included in calculating

11         the amount of certain student awards; providing

12         an effective date.

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

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16         Section 1.  Subsection (3) of section 1009.24, Florida

17  Statutes, is amended to read:

18         1009.24  State university student fees.--

19         (3)  Within proviso in the General Appropriations Act

20  and law, each board of trustees shall set university tuition

21  and fees. The sum of the activity and service, health, and

22  athletic fees a student is required to pay to register for a

23  course shall not exceed 40 percent of the tuition established

24  in law or in the General Appropriations Act. No university

25  shall be required to lower any fee in effect on the effective

26  date of this act in order to comply with this subsection.

27  Within the 40 percent cap, universities may not increase the

28  aggregate sum of activity and service, health, and athletic

29  fees more than 5 percent per year unless specifically

30  authorized in law or in the General Appropriations Act. A

31  university may increase its athletic fee to defray the costs


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    SB 2810                                       Second Engrossed



 1  associated with changing National Collegiate Athletic

 2  Association divisions. Any such increase in the athletic fee

 3  may exceed both the 40 percent cap and the 5 percent cap

 4  imposed by this subsection. Any such increase must be approved

 5  by the athletic fee committee in the process outlined in

 6  subsection (11) and cannot exceed $2 per credit hour.

 7  Notwithstanding the provisions of ss. 1009.534, 1009.535, and

 8  1009.536, that portion of any increase in an athletic fee

 9  pursuant to this subsection that causes the sum of the

10  activity and service, health, and athletic fees to exceed the

11  40 percent cap or the annual increase in such fees to exceed

12  the 5 percent cap shall not be included in calculating the

13  amount a student receives for a Florida Academic Scholars

14  award, a Florida Medallion Scholars award, or a Florida Gold

15  Seal Vocational Scholars award. This subsection does not

16  prohibit a university from increasing or assessing optional

17  fees related to specific activities if payment of such fees is

18  not required as a part of registration for courses.

19         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

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