Bill Text: FL S0680 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Excess Credit Hour Surcharges
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Failed) 2019-05-03 - Died in Appropriations [S0680 Detail]
Download: Florida-2019-S0680-Introduced.html
Florida Senate - 2019 SB 680 By Senator Perry 8-00817C-19 2019680__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to excess credit hour surcharges; 3 amending s. 1009.286, F.S.; requiring a state 4 university to calculate an excess hour threshold for 5 each student based on specified criteria; providing 6 that the excess hour threshold may be adjusted only 7 under certain circumstances; revising the threshold 8 for assessing the excess credit hour surcharge; 9 providing an effective date. 10 11 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 12 13 Section 1. Subsection (2) of section 1009.286, Florida 14 Statutes, is amended to read: 15 1009.286 Additional student payment for hours exceeding 16 baccalaureate degree program completion requirements at state 17 universities.— 18 (2) State universities shall require a student to pay an 19 excess hour surcharge for each credit hour in excess of the 20 number of credit hours required to complete the baccalaureate 21 degree program in which the student is enrolled. Each university 22 must calculate an excess hour threshold for each student based 23 on the number of credit hours required for the degree. For any 24 student who changes degree programs, the excess hour threshold 25 may not be adjusted unless the number of credit hours required 26 to complete the new degree program exceeds that of the original 27 degree program. The excess hour surchargeshall become effective28 for students who enter a state university for the first time and 29 maintain continuous enrollment is as follows: 30 (a) For the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 academic years, an 31 excess hour surcharge equal to 50 percent of the tuition rate 32 for each credit hour in excess of 120 percent. 33 (b) For the 2011-2012 academic year, an excess hour 34 surcharge equal to 100 percent of the tuition rate for each 35 credit hour in excess of 115 percent. 36 (c) For the 2012-2013 academic year through the 2019 spring 37 termand thereafter, an excess hour surcharge equal to 100 38 percent of the tuition rate for each credit hour in excess of 39 110 percent. For the 2019 summer term and thereafter, an excess 40 hour surcharge equal to 100 percent of the tuition rate for each 41 credit hour in excess of 120 percent. Notwithstanding the 42 requirements of this subsection, a state university shall refund 43 the excess hour surcharge assessed pursuant to this paragraph 44 for up to 12 credit hours to any first-time-in-college student 45 who completes a baccalaureate degree program within 4 years 46 after his or her initial enrollment in a state university. 47 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.