House Bill hb0035Bc1

    Florida House of Representatives - 2001             CS/HB 35-B

        By the Committee on Colleges & Universities and
    Representatives Kilmer, Melvin, Baxley, Bense, Stansel, Byrd,
    Barreiro, Bowen, Ball, Attkisson, Alexander, Murman, Fasano,
    Crow, Johnson, Haridopolos, Bilirakis, Wiles, Lynn, Maygarden,
    (Additional Sponsors on Last Printed Page)


  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Florida Bright Futures

  3         Scholarship Program; amending ss. 240.40201 and

  4         240.40202, F.S.; revising eligibility

  5         requirements; specifying eligibility

  6         requirements for students who enter the

  7         military service; providing an 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.  Subsection (1) of section 240.40201,

12  Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

13         240.40201  Florida Bright Futures Scholarship

14  Program.--

15         (1)  The Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program is

16  created to establish a lottery-funded scholarship program to

17  reward any Florida high school graduate who merits recognition

18  of high academic achievement and who enrolls in an eligible

19  Florida public or private postsecondary education institution

20  within 7 3 years of graduation from high school. Regardless of

21  the year in which the student first receives scholarship

22  funding, all eligibility shall end 7 years after high school

23  graduation; however, students who enter the military service

24  within 7 years following high school graduation shall have

25  their Bright Futures Scholarship eligibility extended for 7

26  years after the student ends active military duty.

27         Section 2.  Subsection (2) of section 240.40202,

28  Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

29         240.40202  Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program;

30  student eligibility requirements for initial awards.--

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  1         (2)  A student is eligible to accept an initial award

  2  for 3 years following high school graduation and to accept a

  3  renewal award for 7 years following high school graduation. A

  4  student who applies for an award by April 1 and who meets all

  5  other eligibility requirements, but who does not accept his or

  6  her award, may apply for reinstatement of the award.

  7  Reinstatement applications must be received by the deadline

  8  established by the Department of Education reapply during

  9  subsequent application periods up to 3 years after high school

10  graduation.

11         Section 3.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

12  law.

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    Kravitz, Needelman, Dockery, Clarke, Harrell, Cantens, Brummer
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