Florida Senate - 2005 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 1256
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11 The Committee on Education (Wise) recommended the following
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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18 Section 2. Subsection (3) of section 1009.891, Florida
19 Statutes, is amended to read:
20 1009.891 The Access to Better Learning and Education
21 Grant Program.--
22 (3)(a) The department shall issue an access grant to
23 any full-time student seeking a baccalaureate degree:
24 1. Who is registered at a for-profit college or
25 university that is located in and chartered by the state and
26 that is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the
27 Southern Association of Colleges and Schools; or
28 2. Who is registered at a nonprofit college or
29 university that is chartered out of the state or who is
30 registered at a for-profit college or university that has an
31 articulation agreement with the Division of Community Colleges
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1 and workforce education in the the Department of Education in
2 which the undergraduate degree programs leads to employment in
3 a targeted occupation, that has been located in the state for
4 10 years or more, and that is accredited by the Commission on
5 Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools,
6 the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, the
7 North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, or the New
8 England Association of Colleges and Schools; that grants
9 baccalaureate degrees; that is not a state university or state
10 community college; and that has a secular purpose, if the
11 receipt of state aid by students at the institution would not
12 have the primary effect of advancing or impeding religion or
13 result in an excessive entanglement between the state and any
14 religious sect.
15 (b) Institutions eligible for the Access to Better
16 Learning and Education Grant Program in the initial year of
17 funding shall include only those for-profit colleges or
18 universities identified in this subsection. Nonprofit colleges
19 or universities identified in this subsection shall be
20 eligible for financial support in the second year of funding.
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26 And the title is amended as follows:
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30 amending s. 1009.891, F.S.; revising the
31 criteria for institutional eligibility under
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1 which students may participate in the Access to
2 Better Learning and Education Grant Program;
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