HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                  Bill No. HB 2283

    Amendment No. 01 (for drafter's use only)

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11  Representative(s) Wise offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with directory language and title

14  amendments) 

15         On page 5, line 23 through page 7, line 7,

16  remove from the bill:  all of said lines

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18  and insert in lieu thereof:

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

20  trustees may establish a separate additional fee for financial

21  aid purposes and a separate additional fee for technology,

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

23  matriculation fee assessed for workforce development programs

24  funded through the Workforce Development Education Fund.  Each

25  school board and community college board of trustees may also

26  establish additional financial aid and technology fees for

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

28  of the base tuition fee assessed for workforce development

29  programs funded through the Workforce Development Education

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

31  the following criteria:

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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                  Bill No. HB 2283

    Amendment No. 01 (for drafter's use only)





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

 2  trustees may establish a separate fee for financial aid

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

 4  student fees collected for workforce development programs

 5  funded through the Workforce Development Education Fund.  All

 6  financial aid fees collected shall be deposited into a

 7  separate workforce development student financial aid fee trust

 8  fund of the district or community college to support students

 9  enrolled in workforce development programs. Any undisbursed

10  balance remaining in the trust fund and interest income

11  accruing to investments from the trust fund shall increase the

12  total funds available for distribution to workforce

13  development education students. Awards shall be based on

14  student financial need and distributed in accordance with a

15  nationally recognized system of need analysis, as established

16  by each school board or community college district board of

17  trustees approved by the State Board for Career Education.

18  Fees collected pursuant to this paragraph subsection shall be

19  allocated in an expeditious manner.

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

21  accordance with technology improvement plans related to

22  vocational certificate programs and shall not supplant funding

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

24  district school board and community college district board of

25  trustees is authorized to establish a separate fee for

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

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

28  credit hour or credit-hour equivalent for nonresident

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

30  technology improvement plans. The technology fee may apply

31  only to associate degree programs and courses. Fifty percent

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                                                  Bill No. HB 2283

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 1  of technology fee revenues may be pledged by a community

 2  college board of trustees as a dedicated revenue source for

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

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

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

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 8  == D I R E C T O R Y   L A N G U A G E   A M E N D M E N T ==

 9  And the directory language is amended as follows:

10         On page 4, lines 14-15,

11  remove:  and subsection (19) is added to said section,

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15  And the title is amended as follows:

16         On page 1, lines 17-19,

17  remove from the title of the bill:  all of said lines

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19  and insert in lieu thereof:

20         authorizing school boards and community college

21         boards of trustees to establish technology and

22         financial aid fees; amending s. 239.213,

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