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2012 Enacted Legislation Affecting Universities. HB 5005. Reduces ORP contribution from .43% to 5.15%. HB 347/SB 532 College Credit for Mil Training & Educ. Requires BOG & SBOE to adopt regs allowing US Armed Forces members to receive college credit for military training and education
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HB 5005 • Reduces ORP contribution from .43% to 5.15%
HB 347/SB 532College Credit for Mil Training & Educ • Requires BOG & SBOE to adopt regs allowing US Armed Forces members to receive college credit for military training and education • Must develop procedures to evaluate comparability
HB 1355 • $1M fine if university knowingly and willfully fails to report child abuse on campus or at a university-sponsored event
SB 1156 // SB 1994 • CITF fee may increase up to $2 per SCH • Creation of Florida Polytechnic University, the state’s 12th public university. (stay tuned for the 13th.)
HB 7135 • Requires a unified plan to improve K-20 STEM education • Authorizes BOG to consider waiving its rules & permits BOG to waive/modify tuition differential use requirements
HB 7135 continued • Requires chairs of SBE & BOG to appt. faculty committees to identify Gen Ed core course options • Gen Ed core course options shall consisty of a maximum of 5 courses within each subject area: communication, mathematics, social sciences, humanities, & natural sciences • Must contain high-level academic and critical thinking skills and common competencies
HB 7135 continued • Beginning with students entering 2014, must complete at least one identified core course in each subject area as part of Gen Ed • Remaining Gen Ed courses determined by institution • Note that Gen Ed changes from 36 SCHs to 30 SCHs in 2014-15
HB 7135 continued • BOG must review and rank each university applying for performance funding as follows: • 25% of score based on % of employee graduates with earned degrees in CIS, CE, information system tech, and management information systems • 25% based on % of graduates who earned BAs in above areas “and who have earned industry certification in a related field from a FCS institution or a state university prior to graduation” • 50% based on BOG factors related to increasing probability that graduates in identified areas will be employed in high-skill, high-wage, and high-demand jobs
HB 7135 continued • BOG to award up to $15M to highest ranked state universities • Award per university shall be at least 25% of total amount appropriated • Must be awarded to departments that offer prescribed degrees
HB 5201 • Creates the Florida Virtual Campus • Establishes Degree Completion Pilot Program (UWF, USF, FL State College JAX, St. Petersburg College) • Increases the excess hour surcharge students must pay