Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1624
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/01/2025           .                                
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       The Appropriations Committee on Higher Education (Calatayud)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 445 and 446
    4  insert:
    5         Section 10. Section 1001.68, Florida Statutes, is created
    6  to read:
    7         1001.68 Regional consortium service organizations.—In order
    8  to create effectiveness and efficiency of small institutions in
    9  the Florida College System which serve rural communities:
   10         (1) Colleges with 5,000 or fewer full-time equivalent
   11  students may enter into cooperative agreements to form a
   12  regional consortium service organization. Each regional
   13  consortium service organization shall, at a minimum, provide
   14  three of the following services: grant procurement;
   15  institutional research and reporting; risk management;
   16  professional development for faculty and staff; leadership
   17  support; information technology and cybersecurity training;
   18  faculty and staff recruitment; workforce development programs;
   19  cooperative purchasing; administrative services; or enrollment
   20  management services.
   21         (2) Each regional consortium service organization must be
   22  governed by a board of directors composed of the presidents of
   23  the respective member colleges.
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   26  And the title is amended as follows:
   27         Delete line 36
   28  and insert:
   29         as “Hillsborough State College”; creating s. 1001.68,
   30         F.S.; authorizing Florida College System institutions
   31         with a certain number of full-time equivalent students
   32         to enter into cooperative agreements to form a
   33         regional consortium service organization; requiring
   34         such organizations to provide at least a specified
   35         number of certain services; requiring that regional
   36         consortium service organizations be governed by a
   37         board of directors consisting of specified members;
   38         amending s. 1001.706,