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11  Senator Diaz-Balart moved the following amendment to amendment

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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

15         On page 3, line 2, through

16            page 5, line 29, delete those lines

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18  and insert:

19         Section 26.  Subsections (5), (8), and (18), and

20  paragraph (a) of subsection (6) of section 239.117, Florida

21  Statutes, are amended, and subsection (19) is added to that

22  section, to read:

23         239.117  Workforce development postsecondary student

24  fees.--

25         (5)  School districts and community colleges may waive

26  fees for any fee-nonexempt student. The total value of fee

27  waivers granted by the school district or community college

28  may not exceed 8 percent of the district's or community

29  college's postsecondary vocational certificate program

30  enrollment hours unless otherwise indicated by an the amount

31  established annually in the General Appropriations Act. Any

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 1  student whose fees are waived in excess of the authorized

 2  amount may not be reported for state funding purposes. Any

 3  school district or community college that waives fees and

 4  requests state funding for a student in violation of the

 5  provisions of this section shall be penalized at a rate equal

 6  to 2 times the value of the full-time student enrollment

 7  reported.

 8         (6)(a)  The Commissioner of Education shall provide to

 9  the State Board of Education no later than January December 31

10  of each year a schedule of fees for workforce development

11  education, excluding continuing workforce education, for

12  school districts and community colleges. The fee schedule

13  shall be based on the amount of student fees necessary to

14  produce 25 percent of the prior year's average cost of a

15  course of study leading to a certificate or diploma. At the

16  discretion of a school board or a community college, this fee

17  schedule may be implemented over a 3-year period, with full

18  implementation in the 1999-2000 school year. In years

19  preceding that year, if fee increases are necessary for some

20  programs or courses, the fees shall be raised in increments

21  designed to lessen their impact upon students already

22  enrolled. Fees for students who are not residents for tuition

23  purposes must offset the full cost of instruction.

24  Fee-nonexempt students enrolled in vocational-preparatory

25  instruction shall be charged fees equal to the fees charged

26  for certificate career education instruction. Each community

27  college that conducts college-preparatory and

28  vocational-preparatory instruction in the same class section

29  may charge a single fee for both types of instruction.

30         (8)  Each school board and community college board of

31  trustees may establish a separate additional fee for financial

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 1  aid purposes and a separate additional fee for technology,

 2  which in sum do not exceed 10 percent of the base

 3  matriculation fee assessed for workforce development programs

 4  funded through the Workforce Development Education Fund.  Each

 5  school board and community college board of trustees may also

 6  establish additional financial aid and technology fees for

 7  non-resident students, which in sum do not exceed 10 percent

 8  of the base tuition fee assessed for workforce development

 9  programs funded through the Workforce Development Education

10  Fund.  When established, fees shall be assessed pursuant to

11  the following criteria:

12         (a)  Each school board and community college board of

13  trustees may establish a separate fee for financial aid

14  purposes in an additional amount of up to 10 percent of the

15  student fees collected for workforce development programs

16  funded through the Workforce Development Education Fund.  All

17  financial aid fees collected shall be deposited into a

18  separate workforce development student financial aid fee trust

19  fund of the district or community college to support students

20  enrolled in workforce development programs. Any undisbursed

21  balance remaining in the trust fund and interest income

22  accruing to investments from the trust fund shall increase the

23  total funds available for distribution to workforce

24  development education students. Awards shall be based on

25  student financial need and distributed in accordance with a

26  nationally recognized system of need analysis, as established

27  by each school board or community college district board of

28  trustees approved by the State Board for Career Education.

29  Fees collected pursuant to this paragraph subsection shall be

30  allocated in an expeditious manner.

31         (b)(18)  Technology fee revenues must be expended in

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 1  accordance with technology improvement plans related to

 2  vocational certificate programs and shall not supplant funding

 3  expended in the prior year's budget for these purposes. Each

 4  district school board and community college district board of

 5  trustees is authorized to establish a separate fee for

 6  technology, not to exceed $1.80 per credit hour or credit-hour

 7  equivalent for resident students and not more than $5.40 per

 8  credit hour or credit-hour equivalent for nonresident

 9  students, or the equivalent, to be expended in accordance with

10  technology improvement plans. The technology fee may apply

11  only to associate degree programs and courses. Fifty percent

12  of technology fee revenues may be pledged by a community

13  college board of trustees as a dedicated revenue source for

14  the repayment of debt, including lease-purchase agreements,

15  not to exceed the useful life of the asset being financed.

16  Revenues generated from the technology fee may not be bonded.

17         (19)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this

18  section, an institution is not required to reduce fees for

19  workforce development programs.

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23  And the title is amended as follows:

24         On page 18, line 29, after the semicolon,

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27         providing that an institution is not required

28         to reduce fees for workforce development;

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