The Florida Senate

CS/CS/SB 254: Textbook Affordability [SPCC]

GENERAL BILL by Finance and Tax ; Higher Education Appropriations ; Wise

Textbook Affordability [SPCC]; prohibits certain actions by employees of state university or community college re purchase of required textbooks by students; requires that community colleges & state universities notify students of textbooks required for each course by listing such textbooks on community college or university website; requires adoption of certain policies & practices designed to minimize the cost of textbooks, etc. Creates 1004.09.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  12/14/2006	Senate	• Filed
  1/24/2007	Senate	• Referred to Higher Education; Finance and Tax; General Government Appropriations
  2/12/2007	Senate	• On Committee agenda-- Higher Education, 02/21/07, 9:30 am, 37-S --Temporarily postponed
  3/6/2007	Senate	• Introduced, referred to Higher Education; Finance and Tax; General Government Appropriations -SJ 00021; On Committee agenda-- Higher Education, 02/21/07, 9:30 am, 37-S --Temporarily postponed
  3/9/2007	Senate	• On Committee agenda-- Higher Education, 03/14/07, 9:00 am, 37-S
  3/14/2007	Senate	• CS by Higher Education; YEAS 6 NAYS 0 -SJ 00134; CS read 1st time on 03/15/07 -SJ 00161
  3/15/2007	Senate	• Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2)
  3/16/2007	Senate	• Now in Finance and Tax -SJ 00134
  4/10/2007	Senate	• On Committee agenda-- Finance and Tax, 04/13/07, 8:30 am, 412-K
  4/13/2007	Senate	• CS/CS by Finance and Tax; YEAS 5 NAYS 0 -SJ 00439; CS read 1st time on 04/18/07 -SJ 00441
  4/16/2007	Senate	• Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2); Remaining references corrected to Higher Education; Higher Education Appropriations -SJ 00455; Now in Higher Education
  4/30/2007	Senate	• Withdrawn from Higher Education -SJ 00732; Now in Higher Education Appropriations
  5/4/2007	Senate	• Died in Committee on Higher Education Appropriations

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• CS/CS/SB 254, Committee Substitute 2 (Current Bill Version) Posted 4/16/2007 at 8:48 AM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	Finance and Tax (Post-Meeting) 4/13/2007 (pdf)

  Related Bills (2)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location
  H 289 (e1)	Textbook Affordability	Flores	Similar	Last Action: 5/4/2007 S Died in Messages Location:
  S 2492 (c1)	Textbook Affordability [SPCC]	Haridopolos	Similar	Last Action: 5/4/2007 S Died in Committee on Higher Education Appropriations Location:

  Citations - Statutes (1)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  1004.09

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• CS/SB 254, Committee Substitute 1 Posted 3/15/2007 at 12:39 PM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	Higher Education (Post-Meeting) 3/14/2007 (pdf)

  Committee Amendments (2)

  Amendment	Sponsor	Filed	Last Committee Action	Format
  933558 - Amendment	Finance and Tax (Haridopolos)	4/11/2007 3:07 PM	Replaced by Committee Substitute 4/13/2007	Web Page PDF
  100352 - Amendment to Amendment (933558)	Finance and Tax (Haridopolos)	4/12/2007 7:01 PM	Replaced by Committee Substitute 4/13/2007	Web Page PDF

  Committee Votes (1)

  Date	Committee	Result
  4/13/2007 8:30 AM	Finance and Tax	View Vote Record

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• SB 254, Original Filed Version Posted 12/14/2006 at 3:30 PM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	None

  Committee Amendments (3)

  Amendment	Sponsor	Filed	Last Committee Action	Format
  190752 - Amendment	Higher Education (Bennett)	2/19/2007 2:47 PM	Withdrawn 3/14/2007	Web Page PDF
  701514 - Amendment	Higher Education (Bennett)	2/21/2007 8:21 AM	Replaced by Committee Substitute 3/14/2007	Web Page PDF
  164574 - Substitute Amendment (701514)	Higher Education (Bennett)	3/13/2007 7:50 PM	Replaced by Committee Substitute 3/14/2007	Web Page PDF

  Committee Votes (1)

  Date	Committee	Result
  3/14/2007 9:00 AM	Higher Education	6 Yeas - 0 Nays

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