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Florida Senate - 2005 CS for SB 542
By the Committee on Education; and Senators Smith and Bullard
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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to community college student
3 fees; amending s. 1009.23, F.S.; authorizing
4 each community college board of trustees to
5 establish a transportation user fee; limiting
6 such fee to the cost of the service provided;
7 allowing fines to exceed the cost of services
8 provided and to apply to persons other than
9 those receiving specified services; providing
10 an effective date.
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12 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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14 Section 1. Subsection (12) of section 1009.23, Florida
15 Statutes, is amended to read:
16 1009.23 Community college student fees.--
17 (12) In addition to tuition, out-of-state, financial
18 aid, capital improvement, student activity and service, and
19 technology fees authorized in this section, each community
20 college board of trustees is authorized to establish fee
21 schedules for the following user fees and fines: laboratory
22 fees; parking fees and fines; transportation fees; library
23 fees and fines; fees and fines relating to facilities and
24 equipment use or damage; access or identification card fees;
25 duplicating, photocopying, binding, or microfilming fees;
26 standardized testing fees; diploma replacement fees;
27 transcript fees; application fees; graduation fees; and late
28 fees related to registration and payment. Such user fees and
29 fines shall not exceed the cost of the services provided and
30 shall only be charged to persons receiving the service. A
31 community college may not charge any fee except as authorized
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1 by law or rules of the State Board of Education. Parking fee
2 revenues may be pledged by a community college board of
3 trustees as a dedicated revenue source for the repayment of
4 debt, including lease-purchase agreements and revenue bonds
5 with terms not exceeding 20 years and not exceeding the useful
6 life of the asset being financed. Community colleges shall use
7 the services of the Division of Bond Finance of the State
8 Board of Administration to issue any revenue bonds authorized
9 by the provisions of this subsection. Any such bonds issued by
10 the Division of Bond Finance shall be in compliance with the
11 provisions of the State Bond Act. Bonds issued pursuant to the
12 State Bond Act shall be validated in the manner established in
13 chapter 75. The complaint for such validation shall be filed
14 in the circuit court of the county where the seat of state
15 government is situated, the notice required to be published by
16 s. 75.06 shall be published only in the county where the
17 complaint is filed, and the complaint and order of the circuit
18 court shall be served only on the state attorney of the
19 circuit in which the action is pending.
20 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2005.
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22 STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
23 Senate Bill 542
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25 Amends current statutory language to clarify that fines are
not assessed based on the cost of providing a service.
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The primary focus of the bill remains the granting of
27 discretionary authority to each community college board of
trustees to levy a transportation user fee in addition to the
28 currently authorized list of user fees identified in section
1009.23, F.S.
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