Senate Bill sb0446

    Florida Senate - 2007                                   SB 446

    By Senator Fasano





    11-134A-07

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to postsecondary education fee

  3         waivers; amending s. 1009.26, F.S.; providing

  4         that, in order to receive the waiver of

  5         undergraduate tuition at a state university or

  6         community college, a recipient of a combat

  7         decoration must be in good standing as to

  8         repaying undergraduate student loans received

  9         before the decoration was bestowed; requiring

10         the state to repay student loans outstanding

11         after a waiver has been granted to a decorated

12         combat veteran; providing an appropriation;

13         providing an effective date.

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

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17         Section 1.  Subsection (9) of section 1009.26, Florida

18  Statutes, is amended to read:

19         1009.26  Fee waivers.--

20         (9)  A state university or community college shall

21  waive undergraduate tuition for each recipient of a Purple

22  Heart or another combat decoration superior in precedence who:

23         (a)  Is enrolled as a full-time, part-time, or

24  summer-school student in an undergraduate program that

25  terminates in a degree or certificate;

26         (b)  Is currently, and was at the time of the military

27  action that resulted in the awarding of the Purple Heart or

28  other combat decoration superior in precedence, a resident of

29  this state; and

30         (c)  Is in good standing regarding the repayment of any

31  undergraduate student loans that he or she was awarded before

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    Florida Senate - 2007                                   SB 446
    11-134A-07




 1  receiving the combat decoration; however. the state must pay

 2  the balance due on such loans on the date the tuition waiver

 3  is first granted; and

 4         (d)(c)  Submits to the state university or the

 5  community college the DD-214 form issued at the time of

 6  separation from service as documentation that the student has

 7  received a Purple Heart or another combat decoration superior

 8  in precedence.

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10  Such a waiver for a Purple Heart recipient or recipient of

11  another combat decoration superior in precedence shall be

12  applicable for 110 percent of the number of required credit

13  hours of the degree or certificate program for which the

14  student is enrolled.

15         Section 2.  The sum of _____ is appropriated from the

16  General Revenue Fund to the Department of Veterans' Affairs to

17  be used during the 2007-2008 fiscal year for the purpose of

18  repaying outstanding undergraduate student loans made to

19  decorated combat veterans as provided in this act.

20         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.

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23                          SENATE SUMMARY

24    Provides that, in order to receive the waiver of
      undergraduate tuition at a state university or community
25    college, a recipient of a combat decoration must be in
      good standing as to repaying undergraduate student loans
26    received before the decoration was bestowed. Requires the
      state to repay student loans outstanding after a waiver
27    has been granted to a decorated combat veteran. Provides
      an appropriation.
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