Florida Senate - 2024                                    SB 1518
       
       
        
       By Senator Berman
       
       
       
       
       
       26-00401-24                                           20241518__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to state university student fee
    3         waivers; amending s. 1009.26, F.S.; requiring state
    4         universities to waive specified fees for graduate
    5         students who meet a specified full-time equivalent
    6         appointment requirement; providing an effective date.
    7          
    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   10         Section 1. Present subsections (16) through (21) of section
   11  1009.26, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (17)
   12  through (22), respectively, and a new subsection (16) is added
   13  to that section, to read:
   14         1009.26 Fee waivers.—
   15         (16) A state university shall waive the fees imposed in s.
   16  1009.24(7)-(13) for a graduate student who has at least a 0.25
   17  full-time equivalent appointment or greater as a graduate
   18  assistant, graduate research assistant, graduate teaching
   19  assistant, graduate research associate, or graduate teaching
   20  associate.
   21         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.