Florida SB 720: Children’s Initiatives

Bill Text

720 
Resident Status for Tuition Purposes 
2025-12-03T06:09:06Z 
Providing that a person may not lose his or her resident status for tuition purposes due to incarceration, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
S 
2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
GB 
General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 720 

 By Senator Osgood 

 32-00638-26 2026720__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to resident status for tuition 
 3 purposes; amending s. 1009.21, F.S.; providing that a 
 4 person may not lose his or her resident status for 
 5 tuition purposes due to incarceration; providing an 
 6 effective date. 
 7 
 8 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 9 
 10 Section 1. Present subsections (4) through (13) of section 
 11 1009.21, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (5) 
 12 through (14), respectively, and a new subsection (4) is added to 
 13 that section, to read: 
 14 1009.21 Determination of resident status for tuition 
 15 purposes.—Students shall be classified as residents or 
 16 nonresidents for the purpose of assessing tuition in 
 17 postsecondary educational programs offered by charter technical 
 18 career centers or career centers operated by school districts, 
 19 in Florida College System institutions, and in state 
 20 universities. 
 21 (4) An individual may not lose his or her resident status 
 22 for tuition purposes solely by reason of incarceration in a 
 23 state or federal correctional facility in this state. 
 24 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.