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Florida University Legislation Highlights: Enhancing Education and Efficiency

Enacted legislation impacting universities in Florida, including changes in contribution rates, college credit for military training, child abuse reporting fines, STEM education plan, Gen Ed courses, performance funding criteria, and creation of Florida Polytechnic University.

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Florida University Legislation Highlights: Enhancing Education and Efficiency

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  1. 2012 Enacted Legislation Affecting Universities

  2. HB 5005 • Reduces ORP contribution from .43% to 5.15%

  3. 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

  4. HB 1355 • $1M fine if university knowingly and willfully fails to report child abuse on campus or at a university-sponsored event

  5. 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.)

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

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