Senate Bill sb0122c1

    Florida Senate - 2006                            CS for SB 122

    By the Committee on Education Appropriations; and Senators
    Fasano and Lynn




    602-1877-06

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to tuition waivers; amending s.

  3         1009.26, F.S.; requiring state universities and

  4         community colleges to waive tuition for a

  5         recipient of a Purple Heart or other combat

  6         decoration superior in precedence who fulfills

  7         specified criteria; providing a percentage cap

  8         on the number of required credit hours for

  9         which a tuition waiver may be received;

10         providing 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 (9) is added to section 1009.26,

15  Florida Statutes, to read:

16         1009.26  Fee waivers.--

17         (9)  A state university or community college shall

18  waive undergraduate tuition for each recipient of a Purple

19  Heart or another combat decoration superior in precedence who:

20         (a)  Is enrolled as a full-time, part-time, or

21  summer-school student in an undergraduate program that

22  terminates in a degree or certificate;

23         (b)  Is currently, and was at the time of the military

24  action that resulted in the awarding of the Purple Heart or

25  other combat decoration superior in precedence, a resident of

26  this state; and

27         (c)  Submits to the state university or the community

28  college the DD-214 form issued at the time of separation from

29  service as documentation that the student has received a

30  Purple Heart or another combat decoration superior in

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    Florida Senate - 2006                            CS for SB 122
    602-1877-06




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 2  Such a waiver for a Purple Heart recipient or recipient of

 3  another combat decoration superior in precedence shall be

 4  applicable for 110 percent of the number of required credit

 5  hours of the degree or certificate program for which the

 6  student is enrolled.

 7         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2006.

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 9          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
10                         Senate Bill 122

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12  The committee substitute for SB 122 adds a provision requiring
    tuition waivers for recipients of the Purple Heart or combat
13  decorations superior to the Purple Heart, and adds a provision
    providing for a percentage cap on the number of credit hours
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