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 students
   17  enrolled in applied academics for adult education instruction
   18  shall be charged fees equal to the fees charged for adult
   19  general 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 block
   28  tuition of $45 per half year or $30 per term shall be assessed.
   29  Each district school board and Florida College System
   30  institution board of trustees shall adopt policies and
   31  procedures for the collection of and accounting for the
   32  expenditure of the block tuition. All funds received from the
   33  block tuition shall be used only for adult general education
   34  programs. Students enrolled in adult general education programs
   35  may not be assessed the fees authorized in subsection (5),
   36  subsection (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 a
   74  student is exempt from the payment of the block tuition for
   75  adult 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.