Florida Senate - 2009                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1364
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/25/2009           .                                
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       The Committee on Higher Education (Pruitt) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 38 - 73
    4  and insert:
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    6         after the end of the drop and add period or for courses
    7  from which students withdrew after the end of the drop and add
    8  period unless a student has dropped or withdrawn from the course
    9  due to a verifiable illness or other documented emergency if a
   10  student who receives an award disbursement terminates enrollment
   11  for any reason during an academic term and a refund is permitted
   12  by the institution’s refund policy.
   13         (11) Funds for any scholarship within the Florida Bright
   14  Futures Scholarship Program may not be used to pay for courses
   15  dropped after the end of the drop and add period or courses from
   16  which students withdraw after the end of the drop and add period
   17  except as otherwise provided in this section.
   18         Section 2. Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section
   19  1009.532, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   20         1009.532 Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program;
   21  student eligibility requirements for renewal awards.—
   22         (1) To be eligible to renew a scholarship from any of the
   23  three types of scholarships under the Florida Bright Futures
   24  Scholarship Program, a student must:
   25  (a) Effective in the 2009-2010 academic year and thereafter,
   26  earn Complete at least 24 12 semester credit hours or the
   27  equivalent in the last academic year in which the student earned
   28  a scholarship if the student was enrolled full time. If the
   29  student was enrolled part time, the student must have completed
   30  a prorated number of credit hours as determined by the
   31  Department of Education. If a student fails to earn the minimum
   32  number of hours required to renew the scholarship, the student
   33  is not eligible to renew his or her scholarship for a period
   34  equivalent to 1 academic year. The student is eligible to
   35  restore the award the following academic year if the student
   36  earns the number of credit hours specified by the department and
   37  satisfies the grade point average for renewal. A student’s
   38  scholarship may be restored only one time.
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   41         And the title is amended as follows:
   42         Delete lines 7 - 12
   43  and insert:
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   45  after the end of the drop and add period; amending s. 1009.532,
   46  F.S.; increasing the credit hour requirements for a student to
   47  remain eligible for a scholarship; permitting a one-time
   48  restoration of scholarship eligibility; providing an effective