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Florida Senate - 2021

576-03664-21 certificateholders and graduates of such degree programs. For each certificate and degree program listed, the Board of Governors and the State Board of Education must identify: occupations, current job openings, estimates of job growth, and employment wages. The State Board of Education list must include programs at independent colleges and universities licensed by the Commission for Independent Education.

(c) The Board of Governors, the State Board of Education, and the Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida must publish the methodology used in determining whether programs were included on a list. (d) The respective lists must _be updated annually, by December 31, to be effective in the next academic year.

Section 5. Paragraph (a) of subsection (4) and subsection (5) of section 1009.50, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

1009.50 Florida Public Student Assistance Grant Program; eligibility for grants.—

(4) (a) The funds appropriated for the Florida Public Student Assistance Grant Program shall be distributed to eligible institutions in accordance with a formula approved by the State Board of Education. The formula must consider at least the prior year’s distribution of funds, the number of eligible applicants who did not receive awards, the standardization of the expected family contribution, and provisions for unused funds. The formula must account for changes in the number of eligible students across all student assistance grant programs established pursuant to this section and ss. 1009.505, 1009.51, and 1009.52. 5} Funds appropriated by the Legislature for state student Page 10 of 21 CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words are additions.