<p>Latest update: the sponsor has now withdrawn HB 35 from consideration.</p>
<p>The logic of the law didn’t seem all that unreasonable. Why should I pick up your dinner tab if you are going to jump into bed with someone else the same night?</p>
<p>Newly-proposed Florida Senate Bill 680 would remove the requirement that the FAFSA be submitted in order to qualify for Bright Futures. This is, however, an orphan bill at this point, and its future remains uncertain.</p>
<p>This may seem like a dumb question, but if a student who qualifies for a Bright Future scholarship goes to school in another state, can the student still get money to pay for education? Actually, what I am really getting at is that I was told that if the student goes to school in Alabama or Georgia, they may still get some scholarship money. Not sure if this is true or if any money would be applied to a school in another state. This issue was brought up at a college planning meeting at my son’s school, and it really didn’t make much sense. I’m not sure why Florida would give students any money to go to a school in another state.</p>
<p>[Florida</a> Student Scholarship and Grant Programs](<a href=“Home - Florida Student Scholarship & Grant Programs”>Home - Florida Student Scholarship & Grant Programs) indicates that Bright Futures money is available only at an “eligible Florida postsecondary institution”, and “out-of-state institutions are not eligible”.</p>
<p>Thank you ucb.</p>
<p>Sheesh, if they did that here with West Virginia PROMISE, nobody would ever take the scholarship, unless they wanted to top out at $40,000 after 20 years.</p>
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<p>I thought they made a lot of money in the coal mines.</p>
<p>They do, if they’re lucky enough to get and keep a job in the mines. They’re getting fewer and farther between and if there’s one occupation where a college degree would hurt a lot more than it would help (culturally and socially, anyway), it’s coal mining. Miners are definitely a breed apart.</p>