Florida Senate - 2013                                    SB 1202
       
       
       
       By Senator Soto
       
       
       
       
       14-00700-13                                           20131202__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to credit card solicitations on
    3         college campuses; prohibiting the solicitation of
    4         credit cards on Florida College System institutions or
    5         state university campuses; providing an effective
    6         date.
    7  
    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   10         Section 1. Credit card solicitation prohibited.—The
   11  advertising, marketing, or merchandising of credit cards is
   12  prohibited on the campus of a Florida College System institution
   13  or state university.
   14         (1) This includes, but is not limited to, advertising or
   15  soliciting at campus vendor tables and posting or distributing
   16  applications, fliers, posters, and handbills and signage,
   17  electronic and otherwise, in an institution or university
   18  facility. The college’s e-mail system or web pages may not be
   19  used for advertising or soliciting credit cards to students.
   20         (2) Banks, credit unions, and other businesses approved to
   21  be present at student orientations during the weeks leading up
   22  to the opening of the institution or university or other campus
   23  activities may not provide credit card applications to students
   24  during those events.
   25         Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.