Senate Bill sb1852c1

    Florida Senate - 2003            CS for SB's 1852, 1628 & 2344

    By the Committee on Education; and Senators Diaz de la
    Portilla, Wilson, Villalobos, Margolis, Hill and Dawson




    304-2426-03

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to determination of resident

  3         status for tuition purposes; amending s.

  4         1009.21, F.S.; classifying specified students

  5         as residents for tuition purposes; classifying

  6         certain liaison officers and their spouses and

  7         dependent children as residents for tuition

  8         purposes; providing an effective date.

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

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12         Section 1.  Paragraphs (k) and (l) are added to

13  subsection (10) of section 1009.21, Florida Statutes, to read:

14         1009.21  Determination of resident status for tuition

15  purposes.--Students shall be classified as residents or

16  nonresidents for the purpose of assessing tuition in community

17  colleges and state universities.

18         (10)  The following persons shall be classified as

19  residents for tuition purposes:

20         (k)  Students, other than nonimmigrant aliens within

21  the meaning of 8 U.S.C. s. 1101(a)(15), who meet the following

22  requirements:

23         1.  Have resided in this state for at least 3

24  consecutive years immediately preceding the date the student

25  received a high school diploma or its equivalent and have

26  attended a high school in this state for at least 3

27  consecutive school years during such time.

28         2.  Have provided to a public community college or a

29  state university an affidavit stating that the student will

30  file an application to become a permanent resident of the

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    Florida Senate - 2003            CS for SB's 1852, 1628 & 2344
    304-2426-03




 1  United States at the earliest opportunity he or she is

 2  eligible to do so.

 3         (l)  Active duty members of a foreign nation's military

 4  serving as liaison officers and residing or stationed in this

 5  state, and their spouses and dependent children, attending a

 6  community college or state university within 50 miles of the

 7  military establishment where they are stationed.

 8         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2003.

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10          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
11                      SB's 1852, 1628, 2344

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13  The committee substitute combines Senate bills 1852, 1628, and
    2344.
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    The committee substitute classifies a student as a resident
15  for tuition purposes if the student has resided in the state
    for at least three consecutive years immediately preceding the
16  date the student received a high school diploma or its
    equivalent, has attended a high school in this state for at
17  least three consecutive school years during such time, has
    filed an affidavit stating that the student will file for
18  permanent residency at the earliest opportunity he or she is
    eligible, and the student is not a nonimmigrant alien.
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    The committee substitute classifies active duty military
20  foreign liaison officers residing or stationed in this state,
    and their spouses and dependent children, attending a public
21  postsecondary institution within 50 miles of the military
    establishment where the officers are stationed as residents
22  for tuition purposes.

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