Senate Bill sb0658

    Florida Senate - 2005                                   SB 658

    By Senator Sebesta





    16-432-05

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the University of South

  3         Florida St. Petersburg; amending s. 1004.33,

  4         F.S.; authorizing the Campus Board of the

  5         university to forward a proposal to levy a

  6         student-center-support fee to the University of

  7         South Florida Board of Trustees for approval;

  8         providing a standard for the maximum amount of

  9         the fee; providing procedures; prohibiting the

10         inclusion of the fee in calculating the amount

11         a student receives under specified scholarship

12         awards; providing an effective date.

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

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16         Section 1.  Subsection (6) is added to section 1004.33,

17  Florida Statutes, to read:

18         1004.33  The University of South Florida St.

19  Petersburg.--

20         (6)  Pursuant to the legislative mandate set forth in

21  this section to establish the St. Petersburg Campus of the

22  University of South Florida as a separately accredited,

23  residential campus in the University of South Florida System,

24  the Campus Board of the University of South Florida St.

25  Petersburg may forward a proposal to levy a

26  student-center-support fee to the University of South Florida

27  Board of Trustees for approval. The aggregate amount of such

28  fees which is collected in a single fiscal year may not exceed

29  the amount necessary in that fiscal year to retire bonds or

30  other forms of indebtedness issued or procured for the purpose

31  of planning, constructing, equipping, and operating the

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    Florida Senate - 2005                                   SB 658
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 1  student center facility. The fee must be recommended by a

 2  committee, at least half of whom are students appointed by the

 3  president of the student body. The Campus Board shall appoint

 4  the remainder of the committee. A chairperson, appointed

 5  jointly by the Campus Board and the president of the student

 6  body, shall vote only in the event of a tie. The

 7  recommendations of the committee shall take effect only after

 8  approval by the university president, after consultation with

 9  the president of the student body and final approval by the

10  University of South Florida Board of Trustees. The fee shall

11  not be included in calculating the amount a student receives

12  for a Florida Academic Scholars award, a Florida Medallion

13  Scholars award, or a Florida Gold Seal Vocational Scholars

14  award.

15         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2005.

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18                          SENATE SUMMARY

19    Authorizes the Campus Board of the University of South
      Florida St. Petersburg to forward a proposal to levy a
20    student-center-support fee to the University of South
      Florida Board of Trustees for approval. Provides that the
21    maximum amount of the fee which is collected in a fiscal
      year may not exceed the amount necessary in that fiscal
22    year to retire instruments of indebtedness issued for the
      purpose of planning, constructing, equipping, and
23    operating the student center facility. Provides
      procedures. Prohibits the inclusion of the fee in
24    calculating the amount a student receives under specified
      scholarship awards.
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