Senate Bill 0954c1

    Florida Senate - 1998                            CS for SB 954

    By the Committee on Education and Senator Grant





    304-1696-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to community colleges; amending

  3         s. 240.353, F.S.; revising standards for

  4         calculating instruction units in community

  5         colleges; providing a conditional effective

  6         date.

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  8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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10         Section 1.  Subsection (1) of section 240.353, Florida

11  Statutes, is amended to read:

12         240.353  Procedure for determining number of

13  instruction units for community colleges.--The number of

14  instruction units for community colleges in districts which

15  meet the requirements of law for operating a community college

16  shall be determined from the full-time equivalent students in

17  the community college, provided that full-time equivalent

18  students may not be counted more than once in determining

19  instruction units. Instruction units for community colleges

20  shall be computed as follows:

21         (1)  One unit for each 6 12 full-time equivalent

22  students at a community college for the first 420 students and

23  one unit for each 7.5 15 full-time equivalent students for all

24  over 420 students, in advanced and professional other than

25  vocational programs as defined by rules of the State Board of

26  Education, and one unit for each 5 10 full-time equivalent

27  students in vocational programs and preparatory and adult

28  compensatory education programs as defined by rules of the

29  State Board of Education.  Full-time equivalent students

30  enrolled in a community college shall be defined by rules of

31  the State Board of Education.

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    Florida Senate - 1998                            CS for SB 954
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  1         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1 of the

  2  year in which enacted, contingent upon the passage of federal

  3  legislation by the 105th Congress reauthorizing the Intermodal

  4  Surface Transportation Efficiency Act or similar legislation

  5  and providing that Florida receives at minimum 95 percent of

  6  its federal transportation tax contribution.

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  8          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
  9                              SB 954

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11  The committee substitute contains a conditional effective date
    section making the bill's provisions contingent upon the 105th
12  Congress reauthorizing the Intermodal Surface Transportation
    Efficiency Act or similar legislation that would result in
13  Florida receiving at least 95 percent of its federal
    transportation tax contribution.
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