Florida Senate - 2023                                     SB 642
       
       
        
       By Senator Rodriguez
       
       
       
       
       
       40-01392-23                                            2023642__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to state university auxiliary
    3         enterprises; amending s. 1011.47, F.S.; requiring the
    4         Board of Governors to establish uniform reporting
    5         requirements for state university auxiliary
    6         enterprises; providing state university
    7         responsibilities relating to auxiliary enterprises;
    8         requiring the Board of Governors to adopt regulations;
    9         providing an effective date.
   10          
   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   13         Section 1. Section 1011.47, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   14  read:
   15         1011.47 Auxiliary enterprises; contracts, grants, and
   16  donations; reporting requirements.—
   17         (1) As used in s. 19(f)(3), Art. III of the State
   18  Constitution, the term:
   19         (a)(1) “Auxiliary enterprises” includes activities that
   20  directly or indirectly provide a product or a service, or both,
   21  to a university or its students, faculty, or staff and for which
   22  a charge is made. These auxiliary enterprises are business
   23  activities of a university which require no support from the
   24  General Revenue Fund, and include activities such as housing,
   25  bookstores, student health services, continuing education
   26  programs, food services, college stores, operation of vending
   27  machines, specialty shops, day care centers, golf courses,
   28  student activities programs, data center operations, and
   29  intercollegiate athletics programs.
   30         (b)(2) “Contracts, grants, and donations” includes
   31  noneducational and general funding sources in support of
   32  research, public services, and training. The term includes
   33  grants and donations, sponsored-research contracts, and
   34  Department of Education funding for lab schools and other
   35  activities for which the funds are deposited outside the State
   36  Treasury.
   37         (2)(a) The Board of Governors shall establish uniform
   38  reporting requirements for auxiliary enterprises of state
   39  universities. Each state university shall determine if its
   40  auxiliary enterprises, including intercollegiate athletics
   41  programs, shall be self-supporting on an individual or
   42  collective basis.
   43         (b) The Board of Governors shall adopt regulations to
   44  administer this subsection.
   45         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2023.