SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 68

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11  Senator Diaz-Balart moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment 

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15            page 5, line 25, delete those lines

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18         (3)  The college of law at Florida Agricultural and

19  Mechanical University, to the extent consistent with the

20  standards required by the American Bar Association or any

21  other nationally recognized association for the accreditation

22  of colleges of law, shall develop a law library collection

23  utilizing electronic formats and mediums.

24         (4)  The college of law at Florida Agricultural and

25  Mechanical University shall develop and institute a program

26  that is consistent with sound legal education principles as

27  determined by the American Bar Association or any other

28  nationally recognized association for the accreditation of

29  colleges of law and that, to the extent consistent with such

30  sound legal education principles, is structured to serve the

31  legal needs of traditionally underserved portions of the

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 1  population by providing an opportunity for participation in a

 2  legal clinic program or pro bono legal service.

 3         (5)  The Board of Regents shall commence the planning

 4  of a college of law at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical

 5  University. In planning the college of law, the Board of

 6  Regents and the State Board of Education may accept grants,

 7  donations, gifts, and moneys available for this purpose,

 8  including moneys for planning and constructing the college.

 9  The Board of Regents may procure and accept any federal funds

10  that are available for the planning, creation, and

11  establishment of the college of law. Classes must commence by

12  the fall semester 2003. If the American Bar Association or any

13  other nationally recognized association for the accreditation

14  of colleges of law issues a third disapproval of an

15  application for provisional approval or for full approval or

16  fails to grant, within five years following the graduation of

17  the first class, a provisional approval, to the college of law

18  at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, the Board

19  of Regents shall make recommendations to the Governor and

20  Legislature as to whether the college of law will cease

21  operations at the end of the full academic year subsequent to

22  the receipt by the college of law of any such third

23  disapproval, or whether the college of law will continue

24  operations and any conditions for continued operations. If the

25  college of law ceases operations of the college of law

26  pursuant to this section, the following conditions apply:

27         (a)  The authority for the college of law at Florida

28  Agricultural and Mechanical University and the authority of

29  the Board of Regents and the State Board of Education provided

30  in this section shall terminate upon the cessation of

31  operations of the college of law at Florida Agricultural and

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 1  Mechanical University. The college of law at Florida

 2  Agricultural and Mechanical University shall receive no moneys

 3  allocated for the planning, construction, or operation of the

 4  college of law after its cessation of operations other than

 5  moneys to be expended for the cessation of operations of the

 6  college of law. Any moneys allocated to the college of law at

 7  Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University not expended

 8  prior to or scheduled to be expended after the date of the

 9  cessation of the college of law shall be appropriated for

10  other use by the Legislature of the State of Florida.

11         (b)  Any buildings of the college of law at Florida

12  Agricultural and Mechanical University constructed from the

13  expenditure of capital outlay funds appropriated by the

14  Legislature shall be owned and managed by the Board of Regents

15  upon the cessation of the college of law.

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