Florida Senate - 2022                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 7044
       
       
       
       
       
       
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             03/03/2022 10:39 PM       .                                
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       Senator Pizzo moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Substitute for Amendment (119334) (with title
    2  amendment)
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    4         Delete lines 266 - 276
    5  and insert:
    6         (2) ACCREDITATION.—A public postsecondary education
    7  institution may be accredited by the same accrediting agency or
    8  association for consecutive accreditation cycles. In the year
    9  following reaffirmation or fifth-year review by their
   10  accrediting agencies or associations, public postsecondary
   11  education institutions shall collaborate to identify accrediting
   12  agencies or associations that are recognized by the database
   13  created and maintained by the United States Department of
   14  Education, from which to seek accreditation and shall seek and
   15  obtain accreditation before their next reaffirmation date.
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   18  And the title is amended as follows:
   19         Delete lines 18 - 27
   20  and insert:
   21         authorizing public postsecondary education
   22         institutions to be accredited by the same agency or
   23         association for consecutive accreditation cycles;
   24         requiring public postsecondary education institutions
   25         to collaborate to identify additional accrediting
   26         agencies or associations that are recognized by the
   27         database created and maintained by the United States
   28         Department of Education from which they may seek and
   29         obtain accreditation; creating a cause of