Florida Senate - 2014 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SPB 7036
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: FAV .
02/18/2014 .
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1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Delete everything after the enacting clause
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5 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (4) and paragraph
6 (b) of subsection (16) of section 1009.24, Florida Statutes, are
7 amended to read:
8 1009.24 State university student fees.—
9 (4)
10 (b) Beginning with the 2008-2009 fiscal year and each year
11 thereafter, the resident undergraduate tuition per credit hour
12 shall increase at the beginning of each fall semester at a rate
13 equal to inflation, unless otherwise provided in the General
14 Appropriations Act. If the rate is not provided in the General
15 Appropriations Act The Office of Economic and Demographic
16 Research shall report the rate of inflation to the President of
17 the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the
18 Governor, and the Board of Governors each year prior to March 1.
19 For purposes of this paragraph, the rate of inflation shall be
20 defined as the rate of the 12-month percentage change in the
21 Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, U.S. City Average,
22 All Items, or successor reports as reported by the United States
23 Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, or its
24 successor for December of the previous year. In the event the
25 percentage change is negative, the resident undergraduate
26 tuition shall remain at the same level as the prior fiscal year.
27 (16) Each university board of trustees may establish a
28 tuition differential for undergraduate courses upon receipt of
29 approval from the Board of Governors. The tuition differential
30 shall promote improvements in the quality of undergraduate
31 education and shall provide financial aid to undergraduate
32 students who exhibit financial need.
33 (b) Each tuition differential is subject to the following
34 conditions:
35 1. The tuition differential may be assessed on one or more
36 undergraduate courses or on all undergraduate courses at a state
37 university.
38 2. The tuition differential may vary by course or courses,
39 campus or center location, and by institution. Each university
40 board of trustees shall strive to maintain and increase
41 enrollment in degree programs related to math, science, high
42 technology, and other state or regional high-need fields when
43 establishing tuition differentials by course.
44 3. For each state university that has total research and
45 development expenditures for all fields of at least $100 million
46 per year as reported annually to the National Science
47 Foundation, the aggregate sum of tuition and the tuition
48 differential may not be increased by more than 6 15 percent of
49 the total charged for the aggregate sum of these fees in the
50 preceding fiscal year. For each state university that has total
51 research and development expenditures for all fields of less
52 than $100 million per year as reported annually to the National
53 Science Foundation, the aggregate sum of tuition and the tuition
54 differential may not be increased by more than 6 15 percent of
55 the total charged for the aggregate sum of these fees in the
56 preceding fiscal year.
57 4. The aggregate sum of undergraduate tuition and fees per
58 credit hour, including the tuition differential, may not exceed
59 the national average of undergraduate tuition and fees at 4-year
60 degree-granting public postsecondary educational institutions.
61 5. The tuition differential shall not be included in any
62 award under the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program
63 established pursuant to ss. 1009.53-1009.538.
64 6. Beneficiaries having prepaid tuition contracts pursuant
65 to s. 1009.98(2)(b) which were in effect on July 1, 2007, and
66 which remain in effect, are exempt from the payment of the
67 tuition differential.
68 7. The tuition differential may not be charged to any
69 student who was in attendance at the university before July 1,
70 2007, and who maintains continuous enrollment.
71 8. The tuition differential may be waived by the university
72 for students who meet the eligibility requirements for the
73 Florida public student assistance grant established in s.
74 1009.50.
75 9. Subject to approval by the Board of Governors, the
76 tuition differential authorized pursuant to this subsection may
77 take effect with the 2009 fall term.
78 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2014.
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80 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================
81 And the title is amended as follows:
82 Delete everything before the enacting clause
83 and insert:
84 A bill to be entitled
85 An act relating to postsecondary education; amending
86 s. 1009.24, F.S.; deleting a provision relating to the
87 automatic rate of inflation increase in resident
88 undergraduate tuition per credit hour at state
89 universities; deleting a requirement that the Office
90 of Economic and Demographic Research annually report
91 the rate of inflation to the Governor, the
92 Legislature, and the Board of Governors; deleting the
93 definition of the term “rate of inflation”; lowering
94 the annual percentage increase allowed in the
95 aggregate sum of tuition and the tuition differential
96 at state universities; providing an effective date.