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Notice: 31544126

Notice of Rule Development

Department:

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Division:

State Board of Education

Chapter:

STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

Overview

RULE:

6A-20.001	Definitions of Terms for State Student Aid Programs
6A-20.0071	Florida Public Postsecondary Career Education Student Assistance Grant
6A-20.023	Jose Marti Scholarship Challenge Grant Fund
6A-20.027	Rosewood Family Scholarship Fund
6A-20.0283	Florida Farmworker Student Scholarship Program
6A-20.031	Florida Public Student Assistance Grant
6A-20.032	Florida Private Student Assistance Grant
6A-20.033	Florida Postsecondary Student Assistance Grant
6A-20.038	Florida Work Experience Program

PURPOSE:

This amendment is to be in alignment with revised federal laws on measuring a student’s net financial need that is currently defined as the difference between a student’s cost of education and the expected family contribution and other financial resources available to the student. Students will experience a simplified Free Application for Federal Student Application (FAFSA) when applying for federal and state student financial assistance and experience a new need calculation process that ties a student’s FAFSA to their federal tax return. The revised need calculation will result in the usage of a new indicator called the student aid index.

SUBJECT:

Definitions of net financial need will be updated based on updated federal guidelines that replace the need calculation index from the “expected family contribution” to the “student aid index.”

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY:

LAW:

295.01, 295.015, 295.02, 295.03, 295.04, 295.05, 1009.40, 1009.50, 1009.505, 1009.51, 1009.52, 1009.53, 1009.531, 1009.532, 1009.533, 1009.534, 1009.5341, 1009.535, 1009.536, 1009.538, 1009.55, 1009.60, 1009.66, 1009.67, 1009.701, 1009.72, 1009.73, 1009.77, 1009.89, 1009.893, 1009.894, 1009.895, 1009.896, 1009.95, F.S.

PRINT PUBLISH DATE:

10/28/2026 Vol. 52/210

RELATED STATUTES
AND LAWS:

295.01(4), 1001.02(1), (2)(n), 1009.50(5), 1009.505(5), 1009.51(5), 1009.52(6), 1009.53(3), 1009.55(2), 1009.66(9), 1009.67(6), 1009.72(1), 1009.73(10), 1009.77(9), 1009.89(2), (7), 1009.893(14), 1009.894(1), 1009.895(7), 1009.896(7), 1009.95(7), F.S., 295.01, 295.015, 295.02, 295.03, 295.04, 295.05, 1009.40, 1009.50, 1009.505, 1009.51, 1009.52, 1009.53, 1009.531, 1009.532, 1009.533, 1009.534, 1009.5341, 1009.535, 1009.536, 1009.538, 1009.55, 1009.60, 1009.66, 1009.67, 1009.701, 1009.72, 1009.73, 1009.77, 1009.89, 1009.893, 1009.894, 1009.895, 1009.896, 1009.95, F.S.

OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE:

Joint Administrative Procedures Committee
Florida Administrative Law Central Online Network (F.A.L.C.O.N.)

RELATED COURT CASES:

Division of Administrative Hearings

FEDERAL eRULEMAKING
WEB PORTAL:

Regulations.gov

HOW TO LINK TO
THIS NOTICE:

http://flrules.org/gateway/ruleno.asp?id=6A-20.001&PDate=10/28/2026&Section=1

REFERENCE MATERIALS:

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