Florida Statute 1011.81 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLVIII
EARLY LEARNING-20 EDUCATION CODE

Chapter 1011
PLANNING AND BUDGETING

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1011.81 Florida College System Program Fund.—

(1) There is established a Florida College System Program Fund. This fund shall comprise all appropriations made by the Legislature for the support of the current operating program and shall be apportioned and distributed to the Florida College System institution districts of the state on the basis of procedures established by law and rules of the State Board of Education. The annual apportionment for each Florida College System institution district shall be distributed monthly in payments as nearly equal as possible.

(2) Performance funding for industry certifications for Florida College System institutions is contingent upon specific appropriation in the General Appropriations Act and shall be determined as follows:

(a) Postsecondary industry certifications identified on the CAPE Industry Certification Funding List approved by the State Board of Education under s. 1008.44 are eligible for performance funding.

(b) Unless otherwise specified in the General Appropriations Act, each Florida College System institution shall be provided $1,000 for each industry certification earned by a student under paragraph (a). If funds are insufficient to fully fund the calculated total award, such funds must be prorated. The department shall annually, by October 1, report to the Legislature industry certifications sorted into three tiers based upon the anticipated average wages of all occupations to which each certification is linked on the Master Credentials List.

(3) None of the funds made available in the Florida College System Program Fund, or funds made available to Florida College System institutions outside the Florida College System Program Fund, may be used to implement, organize, direct, coordinate, or administer, or to support the implementation, organization, direction, coordination, or administration of, activities related to, or involving, travel to a terrorist state. For purposes of this section, “terrorist state” is defined as any state, country, or nation designated by the United States Department of State as a state sponsor of terrorism.

(4) State funds provided for the Florida College System Program Fund may not be expended for the education of state or federal inmates.

History.—s. 676, ch. 2002-387; s. 1, ch. 2006-54; s. 176, ch. 2011-5; s. 36, ch. 2011-63; s. 99, ch. 2012-5; s. 59, ch. 2013-27; s. 120, ch. 2015-2; s. 17, ch. 2019-103; ss. 10, 11, 115, ch. 2019-116; s. 39, ch. 2021-164; s. 40, ch. 2023-81.

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Williams v. Dist. Bd. of Trs. of Edison Cmty. Coll., 421 F.3d 1190 (11th Cir. 2005).

Cited 18 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 23 I.E.R. Cas. (BNA) 595, 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 18041, 2005 WL 2012592

...This fund is comprised of “all appropriations made by the Legislature for the support of current operating programs and shall be apportioned and distributed to the community college districts of the state on the basis of procedures established by law and rules of the State Board of Education.” Id. § 1011.81. D....

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Fac. Senate of Florida Intern. Univ. v. Roberts, 574 F. Supp. 2d 1331 (S.D. Fla. 2008).

Cited 1 times | Published | District Court, S.D. Florida

...t the scope of the activities for which funding is prohibited. Specifically, sections 1011.90(6) and 112.061(3)(e) describe the activities for which the Act prohibits funding as "activities related to or involving travel to a terrorist state," while section 1011.81(2), which inserts a comma before "travel," states: "activities related to, or involving, travel to a terrorist state" cannot be funded....

...on into the Florida Legislature to execution by then-Governor Bush. ( See id., Ex. 1, Senate Bill 2434.) Below is an outline of the Act's legislative path. The Travel Act was introduced into the Florida Legislature to amend Florida Statutes sections 1011.81 (adding section (2)); 1011.90 (adding section (6)) and 112.061 (adding section (3)(e))....

...When introduced into the Florida Senate, the Act, Senate Bill 2434, contained the same operative language it currently contains: "activities related to or involving travel to a terrorist state." The same language was included in a provision related to the Community College Program Fund, Florida Statutes section 1011.81(2)....

...intiffs prevail. ( See DE 64, 87.) Therefore, the only remaining Defendants are the above-captioned members of the Florida Board of Governors who shall be termed "Defendant" for purposes of this Order. [4] Plaintiffs also challenged Florida Statutes section 1011.81(2), which states: None of the funds made available in the Community College Program Fund, or funds made available to community colleges outside the Community College Program Fund, may be used to implement, organize, direct, coordinate...

...For purposes of this section, "terrorist state" is defined as any state, country, or nation designated by the United States Department of State as a state sponsor of terrorism. Defendant, however, asserts that it takes no position as to the constitutionality of section 1011.81(2) because it does not regulate the community college system....

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Fac. Senate of Florida Int'l Univ. v. Roberts, 574 F. Supp. 2d 1331 (S.D. Fla. 2008).

Published | District Court, S.D. Florida | 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 67648

involving travel to a terrorist state,” while section 1011.81(2), which inserts a comma before “travel,”

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