Florida Senate - 2025                                     SB 644
       
       
        
       By Senator Wright
       
       
       
       
       
       8-01017-25                                             2025644__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to dual enrollment student
    3         eligibility; amending s. 1007.271, F.S.; providing
    4         that certain students enrolled in an adult education
    5         program are eligible for dual enrollment; providing an
    6         effective date.
    7          
    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   10         Section 1. Subsection (2) of section 1007.271, Florida
   11  Statutes, is amended to read:
   12         1007.271 Dual enrollment programs.—
   13         (2)(a) For the purpose of this section, an eligible
   14  secondary student is a student who is enrolled in:
   15         1. Any of grades 6 through 12 in a Florida public school or
   16  in a Florida private school that is in compliance with s.
   17  1002.42(2) and provides a secondary curriculum pursuant to s.
   18  1003.4282; or
   19         2. If such student is between the ages of 16 and 18 and
   20  working toward a standard high school diploma, an adult
   21  education program.
   22         (b) Students who are eligible for dual enrollment pursuant
   23  to this section may enroll in dual enrollment courses conducted
   24  during school hours, after school hours, and during the summer
   25  term. However, if the student is projected to graduate from high
   26  school before the scheduled completion date of a postsecondary
   27  course, the student may not register for that course through
   28  dual enrollment. The student may apply to the postsecondary
   29  institution and pay the required registration, tuition, and fees
   30  if the student meets the postsecondary institution’s admissions
   31  requirements under s. 1007.263. Instructional time for dual
   32  enrollment may vary from 900 hours; however, the full-time
   33  equivalent student membership value shall be subject to the
   34  provisions in s. 1011.61(4). A student enrolled as a dual
   35  enrollment student is exempt from the payment of registration,
   36  tuition, and laboratory fees. Applied academics for adult
   37  education instruction, developmental education, and other forms
   38  of precollegiate instruction, as well as physical education
   39  courses that focus on the physical execution of a skill rather
   40  than the intellectual attributes of the activity, are ineligible
   41  for inclusion in the dual enrollment program. Recreation and
   42  leisure studies courses shall be evaluated individually in the
   43  same manner as physical education courses for potential
   44  inclusion in the program.
   45         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.