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:
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    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.