Florida Senate - 2016                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for HB 7043
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Gaetz moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (420294) (with title
    2  amendment)
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    4         Delete lines 254 - 271
    5  and insert:
    6         (6)(7) PREEMINENT STATE RESEARCH UNIVERSITY SPECIAL COURSE
    7  REQUIREMENT AUTHORITY.—In order to provide a jointly shared
    8  educational experience, a university that is designated a
    9  preeminent state research university may require its incoming
   10  first-time-in-college students to take a six-credit 9-to-12
   11  credit set of unique courses specifically determined by the
   12  university and published on the university’s website. The
   13  university may stipulate that credit for such courses may not be
   14  earned through any acceleration mechanism pursuant to s. 1007.27
   15  or s. 1007.271 or any other transfer credit. All accelerated
   16  credits earned up to the limits specified in ss. 1007.27 and
   17  1007.271 shall be applied toward graduation at the student’s
   18  request.
   19         (7)(8) PREEMINENT STATE RESEARCH UNIVERSITY FLEXIBILITY
   20  AUTHORITY.—The Board of Governors is encouraged to identify and
   21  grant all reasonable, feasible authority and flexibility to
   22  ensure that each a designated preeminent state research
   23  university and each designated emerging preeminent state
   24  research university is free from unnecessary restrictions.
   25         (8)(9) PROGRAMS OF EXCELLENCE THROUGHOUT THE STATE
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   28  And the title is amended as follows:
   29         Delete lines 1566 - 1567
   30  and insert:
   31         initiative; revising the credits a preeminent state
   32         research university may require certain students to
   33         take; amending s. 1001.92, F.S.; requiring