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1998 Florida Statutes
                        PART IV
SCHOLARSHIP AND FINANCIAL AID
(ss. 240.40-240.4989)
    
    SCHOLARSHIP AND FINANCIAL AID
(ss. 240.40-240.4989)
SCHOLARSHIP AND FINANCIAL AID
                        240.40
                        
                    State Student Financial Assistance Trust Fund. 
                    
                        240.40201
                        
                    Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program. 
                    
                        240.40202
                        
                    Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program; student eligibility requirements for initial awards. 
                    
                        240.40203
                        
                    Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program; student eligibility requirements for renewal awards. 
                    
                        240.40204
                        
                    Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program; eligible postsecondary education institutions. 
                    
                        240.40205
                        
                    Florida Academic Scholars award. 
                    
                        240.40206
                        
                    Florida Merit Scholars award. 
                    
                        240.40207
                        
                    Florida Gold Seal Vocational Scholars award. 
                    
                        240.40208
                        
                    Eligibility for the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program; transition. 
                    
                        240.40209
                        
                    Bright Futures Scholarship recipients attending nonpublic institutions; calculation of awards. 
                    
                        240.40242
                        
                    Use of certain scholarship funds by children of deceased or disabled veterans. 
                    
                        240.404
                        
                    General requirements for student eligibility for state financial aid. 
                    
                        240.40401
                        
                    Student financial assistance database. 
                    
                        240.4041
                        
                    State financial aid; students with a disability. 
                    
                        240.4042
                        
                    Financial aid appeal process. 
                    
                        240.405
                        
                    Grants for teachers for special training in exceptional student education. 
                    
                        240.4063
                        
                    Florida Teacher Scholarship and Forgivable Loan Program. 
                    
                        240.4064
                        
                    Critical teacher shortage tuition reimbursement program. 
                    
                        240.4065
                        
                    Critical Teacher Shortage Program. 
                    
                        240.4067
                        
                    Medical Education Reimbursement and Loan Repayment Program. 
                    
                        240.40685
                        
                    Certified Education Paraprofessional Welfare Transition Program. 
                    
                        240.4069
                        
                    Virgil Hawkins Fellows Assistance Program. 
                    
                        240.4075
                        
                    Nursing Student Loan Forgiveness Program. 
                    
                        240.4076
                        
                    Nursing scholarship program. 
                    
                        240.408
                        
                    Challenger Astronauts Memorial Undergraduate Scholarship Trust Fund. 
                    
                        240.4082
                        
                    Teacher
                    
                        240.409
                        
                    Florida Public Student Assistance Grant Program; eligibility for grants. 
                    
                        240.4095
                        
                    Florida Private Student Assistance Grant Program; eligibility for grants. 
                    
                        240.4097
                        
                    Florida Postsecondary Student Assistance Grant Program; eligibility for grants. 
                    
                        240.4098
                        
                    State student financial assistance; authorization for use in program of study in another state or foreign country. 
                    
                        240.40985
                        
                    Elderly Education Program Grants. 
                    
                        240.412
                        
                    Jose Marti Scholarship Challenge Grant Program. 
                    
                        240.4125
                        
                    Mary McLeod Bethune Scholarship Program. 
                    
                        240.4126
                        
                    Rosewood Family Scholarship Program. 
                    
                        240.4128
                        
                    Minority teacher education scholars program. 
                    
                        240.4129
                        
                    Florida Fund for Minority Teachers, Inc. 
                    
                        240.413
                        
                    Seminole and Miccosukee Indian Scholarships. 
                    
                        240.414
                        
                    Latin American and Caribbean Basin Scholarship Program. 
                    
                        240.4145
                        
                    African and Afro-Caribbean Scholarship Program. 
                    
                        240.4146
                        
                    Nicaraguan and Haitian Scholarship Program. 
                    
                        240.417
                        
                    Increased registration or tuition fees for funding financial aid program. 
                    
                        240.418
                        
                    Need-based financial aid; no preference to students receiving other aid. 
                    
                        240.421
                        
                    Florida Council of Student Financial Aid Advisors. 
                    
                        240.424
                        
                    Duties of the department. 
                    
                        240.429
                        
                    Assistance programs and activities of the department. 
                    
                        240.431
                        
                    Funding for programs administered by the department. 
                    
                        240.437
                        
                    Student financial aid planning and development. 
                    
                        240.439
                        
                    Student Loan Program. 
                    
                        240.441
                        
                    Issuance of revenue bonds pursuant to s. 15, Art. VII, State Constitution. 
                    
                        240.447
                        
                    Approval of loans; administration of program. 
                    
                        240.449
                        
                    Loan agreements. 
                    
                        240.451
                        
                    Terms of loans. 
                    
                        240.453
                        
                    Rate of interest and other charges. 
                    
                        240.457
                        
                    Procurement of insurance as security for loans. 
                    
                        240.459
                        
                    Participation in guaranteed student loan program. 
                    
                        240.461
                        
                    Provisions of ss. 240.439-240.463 cumulative. 
                    
                        240.463
                        
                    Validation of bonds. 
                    
                        240.465
                        
                    Delinquent accounts. 
                    
                        240.47
                        
                    Short title. 
                    
                        240.471
                        
                    Purpose. 
                    
                        240.472
                        
                    Definitions. 
                    
                        240.473
                        
                    Authority; creation, membership, terms of members, expenses. 
                    
                        240.474
                        
                    Functions and powers of authority. 
                    
                        240.475
                        
                    Expenses of authority. 
                    
                        240.476
                        
                    Higher education facilities authority as higher education loan authority. 
                    
                        240.477
                        
                    Moneys, endowments, properties; acquisition, deposit, and guarantees. 
                    
                        240.478
                        
                    Conveyance of loan funding deposit to participating institutions. 
                    
                        240.479
                        
                    Notes of authority. 
                    
                        240.48
                        
                    Issuance of obligations. 
                    
                        240.481
                        
                    Trust agreement to secure obligations. 
                    
                        240.482
                        
                    Payment of obligations. 
                    
                        240.483
                        
                    Pledge of revenues. 
                    
                        240.484
                        
                    Funds as trust funds. 
                    
                        240.485
                        
                    Obligations; qualities of investment securities. 
                    
                        240.486
                        
                    Rights of holders of obligations. 
                    
                        240.487
                        
                    Refunding obligations; purpose, proceeds; investment of proceeds. 
                    
                        240.488
                        
                    Investment of funds of authority. 
                    
                        240.489
                        
                    Obligations as legal investments. 
                    
                        240.49
                        
                    Validation of bonds and proceedings. 
                    
                        240.491
                        
                    Actions to contest validity of bonds. 
                    
                        240.492
                        
                    Annual report. 
                    
                        240.493
                        
                    Act as alternative method. 
                    
                        240.494
                        
                    State agreement. 
                    
                        240.495
                        
                    Conflicts of interest. 
                    
                        240.496
                        
                    Liberal construction. 
                    
                        240.497
                        
                    Tax exemption. 
                    
                        240.4975
                        
                    State Board of Administration authority to borrow and lend funds to finance student loans; conditions and limitations. 
                    
                        240.498
                        
                    Florida Education Fund. 
                    
                        240.4986
                        
                    Health Care Education Quality Enhancement Challenge Grant Program for Community Colleges. 
                    
                        240.4987
                        
                    Florida Minority Medical Education Program. 
                    
                        240.4988
                        
                    The Theodore R. and Vivian M. Johnson Scholarship Program. 
                    
                        240.4989
                        
            Educational leadership enhancement grants.