Florida Senate - 2015                                    SB 1478
       
       
        
       By Senator Soto
       
       
       
       
       
       14-01218-15                                           20151478__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the William L. Boyd, IV, Florida
    3         Resident Access Grant Program; amending s. 1009.89,
    4         F.S.; providing that an independent college or
    5         university that was a successor by merger to certain
    6         independent colleges or universities is eligible to
    7         receive William L. Boyd, IV, Florida resident access
    8         grant payments; 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 (3) of section 1009.89, Florida
   13  Statutes, is amended to read:
   14         1009.89 The William L. Boyd, IV, Florida resident access
   15  grants.—
   16         (3) The department shall issue through the program a
   17  William L. Boyd, IV, Florida resident access grant to any full
   18  time degree-seeking undergraduate student registered at an
   19  independent nonprofit college or university which is located in
   20  and chartered by the state; which is accredited by the
   21  Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges
   22  and Schools; which grants baccalaureate degrees; which is not a
   23  state university or Florida College System institution; and
   24  which has a secular purpose, so long as the receipt of state aid
   25  by students at the institution would not have the primary effect
   26  of advancing or impeding religion or result in an excessive
   27  entanglement between the state and any religious sect. Any
   28  independent college or university that was eligible to receive
   29  tuition vouchers on January 1, 1989, and which continues to meet
   30  the criteria under which its eligibility was established, or
   31  that on July 1, 2013, was a successor by merger to an
   32  independent college or university that was eligible to receive
   33  access grant payments under this section, shall remain eligible
   34  to receive William L. Boyd, IV, Florida resident access grant
   35  payments.
   36         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.