<p>The proposed bill by the state senate education committee changing Bright Futures has a long ways to go before it might become law. It is full of holes and will be kicked all over the place the next few weeks by legislators and Florida’s public. For starters the more drastic change for required scores for the 75% award will draw a lot of flak as being discriminatory toward minorities and poorer. As cybermom pointed out in above post, the bill has a change that FAFSA and EFC be submitted for Bright Futures eligiblity in future(lines 711-714 in below link.) Looks like financial need is more likely in future for Bright Future awards.</p>
<p>Another interesting change is allowing Bright Futures to be used for a semester of graduate school tuition if award is not all used up in undergraduate school (lines 872-879 below link.)</p>
<p>Proposed Senate Bill: [Session</a> :Bills : : flsenate.gov](<a href=“http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb1344c1.html&Directory=session/2010/Senate/bills/billtext/html/]Session”>http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb1344c1.html&Directory=session/2010/Senate/bills/billtext/html/)</p>