Florida Administrative Code › 6 - DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION › 6A - State Board of Education › Chapter 6A-10 - MISCELLANEOUS › Section 6A-10.087 - Postsecondary Education Benefits and Services for Students Who Have Been or are in Foster Care or are Experiencing Homelessness

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) Purpose. The purpose of this rule is to
				set forth the requirements related to tuition and fee exemptions, including lab
				fees, and services for students who have been or are in foster care and
				students experiencing homelessness.
(2) Definitions.
(a) "Campus coaching services" means the
				services that institutions may provide in accordance with Section
				409.1452(2),
				F.S., to assist students in their successful completion of postsecondary
				education and transition to independent living.
(b) "Institution" means a Florida College
				System institution, school district career center authorized under Section
				1001.44, F.S., and charter
				technical career center authorized under Section
				1002.34, F.S.
(c) "Liaison" means the institution's
				employee or employees who are responsible for providing on-campus support for
				students related to tuition and fee exemptions and related issues, as required
				by Section 409.1452(1),
				F.S., for institutions that have students exempt under Sections
				1009.25(1)(c) and
				(1)(e), F.S. and this rule.
(d) "Students experiencing homelessness"
				means individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence.
				This definition includes:
1. Individuals who
				are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic
				hardship, or a similar reason; are living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or
				camping grounds due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations; are
				living in emergency or transitional shelters; or are abandoned in
				hospitals;
2. Individuals who have
				a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed
				for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human
				beings;
3. Individuals who are
				living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing,
				bus or train stations, or similar settings;
4. Migratory children who qualify as homeless
				for the purposes of 42
				U.S.C. Sections 11431-11435;
				and
5. Individuals who would
				otherwise meet this definition but for their residence in college dormitory
				housing.
(e) "Students
				who have been or are in foster care" means students who were the subject of a
				shelter proceeding, a dependency proceeding, or a termination of parental
				rights proceeding and:
1. Who are or were in
				out-of-home care at the time they reached eighteen (18) years of age;
2. Who were adopted from the Department of
				Children and Families after May 5, 1997;
3. Who are, or were at the time of reaching
				eighteen (18) years of age, placed in the custody of a relative or nonrelative
				under Section 39.5085,
				39.6221, or
				39.6225, F.S.; or
4. Who after reaching fourteen (14) years of
				age and thereafter spending at least eighteen (18) months in out-of-home care,
				were reunited with his or her parent or parents who were the subject of the
				dependency proceeding before they reached eighteen (18) years of age, including
				students who were reunited under Section
				39.8155,
				F.S.