Florida Senate - 2016                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 524
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Gaetz moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 417 - 434
    4  and insert:
    5         (6)(7) PREEMINENT STATE RESEARCH UNIVERSITY SPECIAL COURSE
    6  REQUIREMENT AUTHORITY.—In order to provide a jointly shared
    7  educational experience, a university that is designated a
    8  preeminent state research university may require its incoming
    9  first-time-in-college students to take a six-credit 9-to-12
   10  credit set of unique courses specifically determined by the
   11  university and published on the university’s website. The
   12  university may stipulate that credit for such courses may not be
   13  earned through any acceleration mechanism pursuant to s. 1007.27
   14  or s. 1007.271 or any other transfer credit. All accelerated
   15  credits earned up to the limits specified in ss. 1007.27 and
   16  1007.271 shall be applied toward graduation at the student’s
   17  request.
   18         (7)(8) PREEMINENT STATE RESEARCH UNIVERSITY FLEXIBILITY
   19  AUTHORITY.—The Board of Governors is encouraged to identify and
   20  grant all reasonable, feasible authority and flexibility to
   21  ensure that each a designated preeminent state research
   22  university and each designated emerging preeminent state
   23  research university is free from unnecessary restrictions.
   24         (8)(9) PROGRAMS OF EXCELLENCE THROUGHOUT THE STATE
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   27  And the title is amended as follows:
   28         Delete lines 35 - 36
   29  and insert:
   30         initiative; revising the credits a preeminent state
   31         research university may require certain students to
   32         take; amending s. 1001.92, F.S.; requiring