The Florida Senate

239.5142  Standard fee implementation schedule.--

(1)  The State Board of Education shall adopt an implementation schedule that establishes standard fees for instruction in certificate career education and continuing workforce education offered by community colleges and school districts. The schedule shall establish fees for the 1998-1999 school year and shall take effect in the fall term of 1998. This implementation schedule must provide a transition in fee levels from the 1997-1998 fees to the level established in this act, and must provide authority for local educational agencies to vary their fees by 10 percent below the standard. However, the fee schedule must not require an educational agency to reduce its fees to reach the standard fee level.

(2)  A local educational agency may waive fees, as designated in s. 239.117(5), up to an amount equal to 8 percent of the agency's total workforce development enrollment hours.

History.--s. 23, ch. 98-58.