Senate Bill sb2810e1

    SB 2810                                        First Engrossed



  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to state university student

  3         athletic fees; amending s. 1009.24, F.S.;

  4         authorizing a fee increase to defray the costs

  5         of changing competitive divisions; providing

  6         that the increase may exceed the limit on fee

  7         increases; limiting such an increase to not

  8         more than $2 per credit hour; requiring that

  9         such an increase be approved by the athletic

10         fee committee; providing that the increase may

11         not be included in calculating the amount a

12         student receives for certain scholarship

13         programs; providing an effective date.

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

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17         Section 1.  Subsection (3) of section 1009.24, Florida

18  Statutes, is amended to read:

19         1009.24  State university student fees.--

20         (3)  Within proviso in the General Appropriations Act

21  and law, each board of trustees shall set university tuition

22  and fees. The sum of the activity and service, health, and

23  athletic fees a student is required to pay to register for a

24  course shall not exceed 40 percent of the tuition established

25  in law or in the General Appropriations Act. No university

26  shall be required to lower any fee in effect on the effective

27  date of this act in order to comply with this subsection.

28  Within the 40 percent cap, universities may not increase the

29  aggregate sum of activity and service, health, and athletic

30  fees more than 5 percent per year unless specifically

31  authorized in law or in the General Appropriations Act. A


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    SB 2810                                        First Engrossed



 1  university that changes National Collegiate Athletic

 2  Association divisions may increase its athletic fee at the

 3  time the university is in the transitional stage of changing

 4  divisions to defray the costs associated with changing

 5  divisions. Such an increase in the athletic fee is exempt from

 6  the 40-percent cap and the 5-percent cap on yearly increases

 7  in the sum of the activity and service, health, and athletic

 8  fees, but may not exceed $2 per credit hour of registered

 9  classes. Such an increase must be approved by the athletic fee

10  committee as provided in subsection (11). Notwithstanding ss.

11  1009.534, 1009.535, and 1009.536, any increase to an athletic

12  fee to defray the costs associated with changing National

13  Collegiate Athletic Association divisions which is assessed

14  pursuant to this subsection may not be included in calculating

15  the amount a student receives for a Florida Academic Scholars

16  award, a Florida Medallion Scholar award, or a Florida Gold

17  Seal Vocational Scholars award. This subsection does not

18  prohibit a university from increasing or assessing optional

19  fees related to specific activities if payment of such fees is

20  not required as a part of registration for courses.

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

22  law.

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