House Bill 2025

    Florida House of Representatives - 1999                HB 2025

        By Representative Greenstein






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Florida Postsecondary

  3         Student Assistant Grant Program; amending s.

  4         240.4097, F.S.; revising eligibility

  5         requirements for the Florida Postsecondary

  6         Student Assistance Grant Program; providing an

  7         effective date.

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  9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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11         Section 1.  Paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section

12  240.4097, Florida Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to

13  read:

14         240.4097  Florida Postsecondary Student Assistance

15  Grant Program; eligibility for grants.--

16         (2)(a)  Florida postsecondary student assistance grants

17  through the State Student Financial Assistance Trust Fund may

18  be made only to full-time degree-seeking students enrolled in

19  programs of at least 60 semester credit hours or 90 quarter

20  credit hours in duration who meet the general requirements for

21  student eligibility as provided in s. 240.404, except as

22  otherwise provided in this section.  Such grants shall be

23  awarded for the amount of demonstrated unmet need for tuition

24  and fees and may not exceed a total of $1,500 per academic

25  year, or as specified in the General Appropriations Act, to

26  any applicant.  A demonstrated unmet need of less than $200

27  shall render the applicant ineligible for a Florida

28  postsecondary student assistance grant.  Recipients of such

29  grants must have been accepted at a postsecondary institution

30  that is located in the state and that is:

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1999                HB 2025

    706-107B-99






  1         1.  A private nursing diploma school approved by the

  2  Florida Board of Nursing; or

  3         2.  An institution either licensed by the State Board

  4  of Independent Colleges and Universities or exempt from

  5  licensure pursuant to s. 246.085(1)(a), excluding those

  6  institutions the students of which are eligible to receive a

  7  Florida private student assistance grant pursuant to s.

  8  240.4095.

  9         3.  An institution receiving biennial licensure by the

10  State Board of Nonpublic Career Education, which is

11  institutionally accredited by an agency recognized by the

12  United States Department of Education.

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14  No student may receive an award for more than the equivalent

15  of 9 semesters or 14 quarters in a period of not more than 6

16  consecutive years, except as otherwise provided in s.

17  240.404(3).

18         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1999.

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21                          HOUSE SUMMARY

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      Revises eligibility for the Florida Postsecondary Student
23    Assistance Grant Program.

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