Florida Senate - 2018                                     SB 844
       
       
        
       By Senator Bean
       
       
       
       
       
       4-01155-18                                             2018844__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to excess credit hour surcharges;
    3         amending s. 1009.286, F.S.; providing an exception to
    4         the excess credit hour surcharge requirement for
    5         certain students; providing a separate excess hour
    6         surcharge threshold for students enrolled in certain
    7         degree programs designated as areas of strategic
    8         emphasis by the Board of Governors; providing an
    9         effective date.
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   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   13         Section 1. Subsection (2) of section 1009.286, Florida
   14  Statutes, is amended to read:
   15         1009.286 Additional student payment for hours exceeding
   16  baccalaureate degree program completion requirements at state
   17  universities.—
   18         (2) State universities shall require a student to pay an
   19  excess hour surcharge for each credit hour in excess of the
   20  number of credit hours required to complete the baccalaureate
   21  degree program in which the student is enrolled. The excess hour
   22  surcharge does not apply to a first-time-in-college student who
   23  completes the requirements of his or her respective
   24  baccalaureate degree program within 4 years. The excess hour
   25  surcharge shall become effective for students who enter a state
   26  university for the first time and maintain continuous enrollment
   27  as follows:
   28         (a) For the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 academic years, an
   29  excess hour surcharge equal to 50 percent of the tuition rate
   30  for each credit hour in excess of 120 percent.
   31         (b) For the 2011-2012 academic year, an excess hour
   32  surcharge equal to 100 percent of the tuition rate for each
   33  credit hour in excess of 115 percent.
   34         (c) For the 2012-2013 academic year and thereafter, an
   35  excess hour surcharge equal to 100 percent of the tuition rate
   36  for each credit hour in excess of 110 percent. However, for
   37  students enrolled in a degree program designated by the Board of
   38  Governors as an area of strategic emphasis in a science,
   39  technology, engineering, mathematics, or health discipline there
   40  is an excess hour surcharge equal to 100 percent of the tuition
   41  rate for each credit hour in excess of 120 percent.
   42         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2018.