Florida Senate - 2021 SB 176 By Senator Cruz 18-00301-21 2021176__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to postsecondary fee waivers; amending 3 s. 1009.26, F.S.; providing specified fee waivers for 4 graduate students who meet certain requirements; 5 providing an effective date. 6 7 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 8 9 Section 1. Present subsections (16) and (17) of section 10 1009.26, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (17) 11 and (18), respectively, and a new subsection (16) is added to 12 that section, to read: 13 1009.26 Fee waivers.— 14 (16) A state university shall waive the fees imposed in s. 15 1009.24(7)-(13) for a graduate student who has at least a 0.25 16 full-time equivalent appointment as a graduate assistant, 17 graduate research assistant, graduate teaching assistant, 18 graduate research associate, or graduate teaching associate. 19 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021.