Florida Senate - 2014                              CS for SB 628
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Education; and Senators Montford and Stargel
       
       
       
       
       
       581-03183-14                                           2014628c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to independent nonprofit higher
    3         education facilities financing; amending s. 243.52,
    4         F.S.; expanding the definition of the term “project”
    5         as it relates to the Higher Educational Facilities
    6         Financing Act; providing an effective date.
    7          
    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   10         Section 1. Subsection (3) of section 243.52, Florida
   11  Statutes, is amended to read:
   12         243.52 Definitions.—As used in ss. 243.50-243.77, the term:
   13         (3) “Project” means a structure suitable for use as a
   14  dormitory or other housing facility, dining hall, student union,
   15  administration building, academic building, library, laboratory,
   16  research facility, classroom, athletic facility, health care
   17  facility, and maintenance, storage, or utility facility, and
   18  other structures or facilities related thereto, or required
   19  thereto, or required or useful for the instruction of students,
   20  or the conducting of research, or the operation of an
   21  institution of higher education, including parking and other
   22  facilities or structures, essential or convenient for the
   23  orderly conduct of such institution of higher education and
   24  shall also include equipment and machinery and other similar
   25  items necessary or convenient for the operation of a particular
   26  facility or structure in the manner for which its use is
   27  intended but shall not include such items as books, fuel,
   28  supplies or other items which are customarily deemed to result
   29  in a current operating charge. The term also dormitory, student
   30  service facility, parking facility, administration building,
   31  academic building, or library and includes a loan in
   32  anticipation of tuition revenues by an institution of higher
   33  education, as defined in subsection (6).
   34         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2014.