Florida Senate - 2014                                     SB 354
       
       
        
       By Senator Abruzzo
       
       
       
       
       
       25-00331-14                                            2014354__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to state university fee exemptions;
    3         providing a short title; amending s. 1009.25, F.S.;
    4         providing an exemption from the payment of tuition for
    5         students enrolled in specified foreign language
    6         courses offered at a state university under certain
    7         circumstances; providing for future expiration unless
    8         reviewed and reenacted by the Legislature; providing
    9         an effective date.
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   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   13         Section 1. This act may be cited as the “Student Global
   14  Economic Education Act.”
   15         Section 2. Subsection (3) is added to section 1009.25,
   16  Florida Statutes, to read:
   17         1009.25 Fee exemptions.—
   18         (3) A student who has taken an initial semester course in
   19  Mandarin or Portuguese at a state university and has received a
   20  grade of “B” or higher for the course is exempt from the payment
   21  of tuition for each additional course in the same language in
   22  which the student is enrolled at a state university. This
   23  subsection expires July 1, 2018, unless reviewed and saved from
   24  repeal through reenactment by the Legislature before that date.
   25         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2014.