Senate Bill sb0446c1

    Florida Senate - 2007                            CS for SB 446

    By the Committee on Military Affairs and Domestic Security;
    and Senator Fasano




    583-1898-07

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to postsecondary education fee

  3         waivers; amending s. 1009.26, F.S.; requiring

  4         the Department of Education to repay student

  5         loans outstanding after a waiver has been

  6         granted to a decorated combat veteran;

  7         requiring certain conditions be met; providing

  8         an appropriation; providing an effective date.

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

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12         Section 1.  Subsection (9) of section 1009.26, Florida

13  Statutes, is amended to read:

14         1009.26  Fee waivers.--

15         (9)  A state university or community college shall

16  waive undergraduate tuition for each recipient of a Purple

17  Heart or another combat decoration superior in precedence who:

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

19  summer-school student in an undergraduate program that

20  terminates in a degree or certificate;

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

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

23  other combat decoration superior in precedence, a resident of

24  this state; and

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

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

27  service as documentation that the student has received a

28  Purple Heart or another combat decoration superior in

29  precedence.

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    Florida Senate - 2007                            CS for SB 446
    583-1898-07




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

 2  another combat decoration superior in precedence shall be

 3  applicable for 110 percent of the number of required credit

 4  hours of the degree or certificate program for which the

 5  student is enrolled. If such a student has an outstanding

 6  undergraduate student loan that was awarded before receipt of

 7  the combat decoration, the Department of Education shall pay

 8  the balance due on the student loan as of the date that the

 9  tuition waiver was first granted once the repayment of the

10  loan is considered to be in good standing.

11         Section 2.  The sum of _____ is appropriated from the

12  General Revenue Fund to the Department of Education to be used

13  during the 2007-2008 fiscal year for the purpose of repaying

14  outstanding undergraduate student loans made to decorated

15  combat veterans as provided in this act.

16         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.

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18          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
19                         Senate Bill 0446

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21  This committee substitute shifts the appropriation to be used
    for payment of eligible undergraduate student loans from the
22  Department of Veterans Affairs to the Department of Education.
    This substitute also clarifies that the term "in good
23  standing" refers to an outstanding student loan.

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