No. HB 19
Educational Dollars for Duty Program; Requires Educational Dollars for Duty program to set aside certain amount of funds to provide tuition assistance to spouses & children of active members of Florida National Guard; authorizes Legislature to increase amount of such funds; requires DMA to oversee implementation & enforcement of program; requiring DMA to establish certain procedures.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDA new set-aside requires the Educational Dollars for Duty program to spend $500,000 of its existing funds every year on tuition assistance for spouses and children of active Florida National Guard members, covering up to half the tuition cost.
The Legislature may raise that $500,000 figure in the future 'as deemed necessary,' though the statute sets no ceiling, formula, or timetable for doing so.
The Department of Military Affairs must oversee the new benefit and write its own procedures for verifying who qualifies and how funds get distributed.
The bill also moves the existing Guard tuition program, previously part of section 250.10, into its own statute, section 250.101, without changing the benefits current service members already receive.
AICreates a new subsection requiring the program to set aside $500,000 of its existing funds every year, dedicated to covering up to half the tuition cost for spouses and children of active Florida National Guard members.
AIAssigns the Department of Military Affairs responsibility for overseeing implementation and enforcement of the tuition set-aside, in addition to a separate duty to write eligibility and distribution procedures.
AIStates that the $500,000 figure 'may be increased by the Legislature as deemed necessary,' letting lawmakers raise the set-aside without setting any ceiling, formula, or process for how much or when.