Title: Credit Card Solicitations on College Campuses

Summary: Prohibits solicitation of credit cards on Florida College System institution or state university campuses.

Full Text:
An act relating to credit card solicitations on college campuses; prohibiting the solicitation of credit cards on Florida College System institution or state university campuses; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Credit card solicitation prohibited.-The advertising, marketing, or merchandising of credit cards is prohibited on the ca mpus of a Florida College System institution or state university. (1) This includes, but is not limited to, advertising or soliciting at campus vendor tables and posting or distributing applications, fliers, posters, and handbills and signage, electronic and otherwise, in an institution or university facility. The college's e-mail system or web pages may not be used for advertising or soliciting credit cards to students. (2) Banks, credit unions, and other businesses approved to be present at student or ientations during the weeks leading up to the opening of the institution or university or other campus activities may not provide credit card applications to students during those events. Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.