Higher Education
Summary
Higher Education; Establishing the Florida Center for Nursing within the University of South Florida; providing that a specified fee waiver applies to a student’s out-of-pocket expenses for tuition and fees after other aid is applied; providing that the LINE Fund was established for shortages in health science professions in addition to nursing; requiring institutions awarded grant funds to submit an annual report by a certain date to the center instead of the Board of Governors or the Department of Education; requiring the Office of Reimagining Education and Career Help to provide specified data to the department, etc.
Bill status
died
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
May 2026
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced May 12, 2026
Last action May 12, 2026
Floor votes
How they voted
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
8
Key actions
0
Committee
1
May 12, 2026
Introduced
Introduced
upper
May 7, 2026
Committee
Referred to Appropriations
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Gayle Harrell
RRepublican
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