Florida Senate - 2014                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1400
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/11/2014           .                                
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       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
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    6         ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================And the title is amended as follows:Delete everything before the enacting clauseand insert:An act relating to postsecondary student tuition; amending ss. 1009.22 and 1009.23, F.S.; revising the standard tuition and out-of-state fees for workforce education postsecondary programs leading to certain certificates and diplomas and certain other programs at Florida College System institutions; deleting a provision relating to an increase in tuition and out-of-state fees at a rate equal to inflation; deleting a requirement that the Office of Economic and Demographic Research annually report the rate of inflation to the Governor, the Legislature, and the State Board of Education; deleting the definition of the term “rate of inflation”; amending s. 1009.24, F.S.; revising the resident undergraduate tuition for lower-level and upper-level coursework; deleting a provision related to an increase of the resident undergraduate tuition at state universities at a rate equal to inflation; deleting the requirement of the Office of Economic and Demographic Research to annually report the rate of inflation to the Governor, the Legislature, and the Board of Governors; deleting the definition of the term “rate of inflation”; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; authorizing a state university board of trustees to increase the aggregate sum of tuition and tuition differential for up to 6 percent of the total charged for the aggregate sum of such fees in the preceding year if the state university if the university meets the specified conditions; amending s. 1009.26, F.S.; requiring a state university, a Florida College System institution, a career center operated by a school district, or a charter technical career center to waive undergraduate tuition for a recipient of a Purple Heart or another combat decoration superior in precedence under certain conditions; requiring a state university, a Florida College System institution, a career center operated by a school district, and a charter technical career center to waive out-of-state fees for certain students who meet specified conditions; requiring a state university, a Florida College System institution, and a charter technical career center to report to the Board of Governors and the State Board of Education, respectively, the number and value of all fee waivers; requiring the Board of Governors for the state universities and the State Board of Education for the Florida College System institutions, career centers operated by a school district, and charter technical career centers to annually certify within their legislative budget requests that the percentage of resident student enrolled systemwide is at least the same as the resident student enrollment systemwide in a specified academic year; providing that a student who is granted the out-of-state fee waiver is not eligible for state financial aid; amending s. 1009.98, F.S.; redefining the term “tuition differential”; revising the purchase date of an advance payment contract as it relates to the amount paid by the Florida Prepaid College Board to a state university on behalf of a qualified beneficiary; prohibiting the amount of the aggregate sum of registration fees, the tuition differential fee, and local fees paid by the board to a state university on behalf of a qualified beneficiary of an advance payment contract from exceeding a certain percentage of the amount charged by the state university for the aggregate sum of those fees; prohibiting the amount of the dormitory fees paid for by the board to a state university on behalf of a qualified beneficiary of an advance payment contract from exceeding a certain percentage of the amount charged by the state university for those fees; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; prohibiting certain dependent children from being denied residency classification for tuition purposes based solely on a parent’s undocumented immigration status; providing an effective date.