Florida Senate - 2020                             CS for SB 1320
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Education; and Senators Cruz and Perry
       
       
       
       
       
       581-03019-20                                          20201320c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to postsecondary fee waivers; amending
    3         s. 1009.26, F.S.; providing specified fee waivers for
    4         graduate students who meet certain requirements;
    5         providing an effective date.
    6          
    7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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    9         Section 1. Present subsection (16) of section 1009.26,
   10  Florida Statutes, is redesignated as subsection (17), and a new
   11  subsection (16) is added to that section, to read:
   12         1009.26 Fee waivers.—
   13         (16) Each state university shall waive the cost of fees in
   14  s. 1009.24(7)-(13) for a graduate student who has a 0.25 full
   15  time equivalent appointment or greater as a graduate assistant,
   16  graduate research assistant, graduate teaching assistant,
   17  graduate research associate, or graduate teaching associate.
   18         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.