Title: Student Fee Exemptions

Summary: Deletes exemption from payment of tuition & fees at school districts that provide workforce education programs & public postsecondary educational institutions for certain students who lack regular nighttime residence or sleeping accommodation.

Full Text:
An act relating to student fee exemptions; amending s. 1009.25, F.S.; deleting an exemption from the payment of tuition and fees at school districts that provide workforce education programs and public postsecondary educational institutions for certain students who lack a regular nighttime residence or sleeping accommodation; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:Section 1. Paragraph (f) of subsection (1) of section 1009.25, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 1009.25 Fee exemptions.-(1) The following students are exempt from the payment of tuition and fees, including lab fees, at a school district th at provides workforce education programs, Florida College System institution, or state university: (f) A student who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence or whose primary nighttime residence is a public or private shelter designed to provide temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized, or a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings. Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.