The Florida Senate

1007.265  Impaired and learning disabled persons; graduation, study program admission, and upper-division entry; substitute requirements; rules.--Any student with a disability, as defined in s. 1007.02(2), in a public postsecondary educational institution, except those students who have been documented as having mental retardation, shall be eligible for reasonable substitution for any requirement for graduation, for admission into a program of study, or for entry into the upper division where documentation can be provided that the person's failure to meet the requirement is related to the disability and where failure to meet the graduation requirement or program admission requirement does not constitute a fundamental alteration in the nature of the program. The State Board of Education shall adopt rules to implement this section and shall develop substitute requirements where appropriate.

History.--s. 5, ch. 2003-8.