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11  Representative(s) Ziebarth, Wasserman Schultz, and Casey

12  offered the following:

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14         Amendment (with title amendment) 

15         On page 6, line 29, through page 7, line 10,

16  remove from the bill:  all of said lines

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18  and insert in lieu thereof:

19         240.136  Suspension and removal from office of elected

20  student government officials; referendum.--Each state

21  university and community college student government

22  association shall establish a process within 60 days of this

23  act becoming a law to provide for the removal from office of

24  any elected student government official who has been convicted

25  of a violation of criminal law or has been found civilly

26  liable for an act of moral turpitude, after all available

27  rights of judicial appeal have been exercised or waived or

28  have expired. The process shall include a procedure for the

29  immediate suspension of the student government official from

30  elected office following the conviction or civil finding and

31  during any appeal, and shall provide for the temporary

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 1  successor to the subject office pending completion of any

 2  appeal. The process must also include a procedure for

 3  registered students to petition for a referendum recommending

 4  to the student government association the removal of a student

 5  official from elected office. The referendum must be held

 6  within 60 days of filing of the petition. The recommendation

 7  to remove the subject official from elected office shall be

 8  made by majority vote of the students participating in the

 9  referendum. The action of a student government association

10  under this section shall be subject to an appeal to the

11  university or community college president or designee.

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15  And the title is amended as follows:

16  remove from the title of the bill:  the entire title

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18  and insert in lieu thereof:

19                  A bill to be entitled

20         An act relating to postsecondary education;

21         amending s. 240.207, F.S.; providing terms of

22         office for members of the Board of Regents;

23         amending s. 240.209, F.S.; revising provisions

24         relating to the selection of the Chancellor;

25         deleting a restriction on the faculty

26         appointment of former university presidents;

27         creating s. 240.136, F.S.; requiring state

28         university and community college student

29         government associations to establish a process

30         for removal of certain student government

31         officials; providing requirements; providing

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