Florida Senate - 2020                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1402
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  02/03/2020           .                                
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       The Committee on Education (Diaz) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
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    3         Delete lines 97 - 144
    4  and insert:
    5         (5) PREEMINENT STATE RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES PROGRAM
    6  SUPPORT.—
    7         (a) A state university that is designated as a preeminent
    8  state research university shall submit to the Board of Governors
    9  a 5-year benchmark plan with target rankings on key performance
   10  metrics for national excellence. Upon approval by the Board of
   11  Governors, and upon the university’s meeting the benchmark plan
   12  goals annually, the Board of Governors shall award the
   13  university its proportionate share of any funds provided
   14  annually to support the program created under this section.
   15         (b) A state university designated as an emerging preeminent
   16  state research university shall submit for approval to the Board
   17  of Governors a 5-year benchmark plan with target rankings on key
   18  performance metrics for national excellence. Upon approval by
   19  the Board of Governors, and upon the university’s meeting the
   20  benchmark plan goals annually, the Board of Governors shall
   21  award the university its proportionate share of any funds
   22  provided annually to support the program created under this
   23  section.
   24         (c) The award of funds under this subsection is contingent
   25  upon funding provided by the Legislature to support the
   26  preeminent state research universities program created under
   27  this section. Funding increases appropriated beyond the amounts
   28  funded in the previous fiscal year shall be distributed as
   29  determined annually by the Legislature to as follows:
   30         1. each designated preeminent state research university
   31  that meets the criteria in paragraph (a) shall receive an equal
   32  amount of funding.
   33         2. Each designated emerging preeminent state research
   34  university that meets the criteria in paragraph (b) shall,
   35  beginning in the 2018-2019 fiscal year, receive an amount of
   36  funding that is equal to one-fourth of the total increased
   37  amount awarded to each designated preeminent state research
   38  university.
   39  
   40  ====== D I R E C T O R Y  C L A U S E  A M E N D M E N T ======
   41  And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   42         Delete lines 41 - 43
   43  and insert:
   44         Section 1. Effective upon this act becoming a law,
   45  subsections (2), (5), and (7) of section 1001.7065, Florida
   46  Statutes, are amended to read:
   47  
   48  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   49  And the title is amended as follows:
   50         Delete lines 6 - 9
   51  and insert:
   52         removing funding provisions for emerging preeminent
   53         state research universities; deleting the programs of
   54         excellence designation