House Bill hb0665c1

    Florida House of Representatives - 2002              CS/HB 665

        By the Committee on Colleges & Universities and
    Representatives Kravitz, Mahon, Bean, Davis, Baker, Attkisson,
    Baxley, Kallinger, Maygarden, Stansel and McGriff




  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to state support for certain

  3         postsecondary students; prohibiting state

  4         support to nonresident aliens who are citizens

  5         of specified countries; providing an effective

  6         date.

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

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10         Section 1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law

11  to the contrary, no funds from general revenue, the lottery,

12  or financial aid fee revenues shall be used to provide student

13  financial assistance in the form of scholarships, fellowships,

14  grants, loans, tuition or fee waivers, or other financial

15  assistance to any nonresident alien student who is enrolled in

16  a Florida public postsecondary institution and who is a

17  citizen of any country that has been identified by the United

18  States Department of State as terrorist or supporting

19  terrorism. A student's country of citizenship shall be

20  determined at the time of a student's enrollment. A

21  nonresident alien student who has been determined ineligible

22  pursuant to the provisions of this section shall remain

23  ineligible for such assistance while enrolled in a Florida

24  public postsecondary institution.

25         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

26  law.

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