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The Florida Statutes

The 1998 Florida Statutes

Title XVI
EDUCATION
Chapter 240
Postsecondary Education
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PART IV

SCHOLARSHIP AND FINANCIAL AID

240.40  State Student Financial Assistance Trust Fund.

240.40201  Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program.

240.40202  Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program; student eligibility requirements for initial awards.

240.40203  Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program; student eligibility requirements for renewal awards.

240.40204  Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program; eligible postsecondary education institutions.

240.40205  Florida Academic Scholars award.

240.40206  Florida Merit Scholars award.

240.40207  Florida Gold Seal Vocational Scholars award.

240.40208  Eligibility for the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program; transition.

240.40209  Bright Futures Scholarship recipients attending nonpublic institutions; calculation of awards.

240.40242  Use of certain scholarship funds by children of deceased or disabled veterans.

240.404  General requirements for student eligibility for state financial aid.

240.40401  Student financial assistance database.

240.4041  State financial aid; students with a disability.

240.4042  Financial aid appeal process.

240.405  Grants for teachers for special training in exceptional student education.

240.4063  Florida Teacher Scholarship and Forgivable Loan Program.

240.4064  Critical teacher shortage tuition reimbursement program.

240.4065  Critical Teacher Shortage Program.

240.4067  Medical Education Reimbursement and Loan Repayment Program.

240.40685  Certified Education Paraprofessional Welfare Transition Program.

240.4069  Virgil Hawkins Fellows Assistance Program.

240.4075  Nursing Student Loan Forgiveness Program.

240.4076  Nursing scholarship program.

240.408  Challenger Astronauts Memorial Undergraduate Scholarship Trust Fund.

240.4082  Teacher/Quest Scholarship Program.

240.409  Florida Public Student Assistance Grant Program; eligibility for grants.

240.4095  Florida Private Student Assistance Grant Program; eligibility for grants.

240.4097  Florida Postsecondary Student Assistance Grant Program; eligibility for grants.

240.4098  State student financial assistance; authorization for use in program of study in another state or foreign country.

240.40985  Elderly Education Program Grants.

240.412  Jose Marti Scholarship Challenge Grant Program.

240.4125  Mary McLeod Bethune Scholarship Program.

240.4126  Rosewood Family Scholarship Program.

240.4128  Minority teacher education scholars program.

240.4129  Florida Fund for Minority Teachers, Inc.

240.413  Seminole and Miccosukee Indian Scholarships.

240.414  Latin American and Caribbean Basin Scholarship Program.

240.4145  African and Afro-Caribbean Scholarship Program.

240.4146  Nicaraguan and Haitian Scholarship Program.

240.417  Increased registration or tuition fees for funding financial aid program.

240.418  Need-based financial aid; no preference to students receiving other aid.

240.421  Florida Council of Student Financial Aid Advisors.

240.424  Duties of the department.

240.429  Assistance programs and activities of the department.

240.431  Funding for programs administered by the department.

240.437  Student financial aid planning and development.

240.439  Student Loan Program.

240.441  Issuance of revenue bonds pursuant to s. 15, Art. VII, State Constitution.

240.447  Approval of loans; administration of program.

240.449  Loan agreements.

240.451  Terms of loans.

240.453  Rate of interest and other charges.

240.457  Procurement of insurance as security for loans.

240.459  Participation in guaranteed student loan program.

240.461  Provisions of ss. 240.439-240.463 cumulative.

240.463  Validation of bonds.

240.465  Delinquent accounts.

240.47  Short title.

240.471  Purpose.

240.472  Definitions.

240.473  Authority; creation, membership, terms of members, expenses.

240.474  Functions and powers of authority.

240.475  Expenses of authority.

240.476  Higher education facilities authority as higher education loan authority.

240.477  Moneys, endowments, properties; acquisition, deposit, and guarantees.

240.478  Conveyance of loan funding deposit to participating institutions.

240.479  Notes of authority.

240.48  Issuance of obligations.

240.481  Trust agreement to secure obligations.

240.482  Payment of obligations.

240.483  Pledge of revenues.

240.484  Funds as trust funds.

240.485  Obligations; qualities of investment securities.

240.486  Rights of holders of obligations.

240.487  Refunding obligations; purpose, proceeds; investment of proceeds.

240.488  Investment of funds of authority.

240.489  Obligations as legal investments.

240.49  Validation of bonds and proceedings.

240.491  Actions to contest validity of bonds.

240.492  Annual report.

240.493  Act as alternative method.

240.494  State agreement.

240.495  Conflicts of interest.

240.496  Liberal construction.

240.497  Tax exemption.

240.4975  State Board of Administration authority to borrow and lend funds to finance student loans; conditions and limitations.

240.498  Florida Education Fund.

240.4986  Health Care Education Quality Enhancement Challenge Grant Program for Community Colleges.

240.4987  Florida Minority Medical Education Program.

240.4988  The Theodore R. and Vivian M. Johnson Scholarship Program.

240.4989  Educational leadership enhancement grants.