Florida Senate - 2024                               CS for SB 62
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Education Postsecondary; and Senators Osgood
       and Book
       
       
       
       
       589-03002-24                                            202462c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to resident status for tuition
    3         purposes; amending s. 1009.21, F.S.; providing that a
    4         person may not lose his or her resident status for
    5         tuition purposes due to incarceration; providing an
    6         effective date.
    7          
    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
    9  
   10         Section 1. Present subsections (4) through (13) of section
   11  1009.21, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (5)
   12  through (14), respectively, and a new subsection (4) is added to
   13  that section, to read:
   14         1009.21 Determination of resident status for tuition
   15  purposes.—Students shall be classified as residents or
   16  nonresidents for the purpose of assessing tuition in
   17  postsecondary educational programs offered by charter technical
   18  career centers or career centers operated by school districts,
   19  in Florida College System institutions, and in state
   20  universities.
   21         (4) An individual may not lose his or her resident status
   22  for tuition purposes solely by reason of incarceration in a
   23  state or federal correctional facility in this state.
   24         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.