Miami lawmaker files bill that would allow in-state tuition for undocumented students

A Miami lawmaker wants to allow undocumented students to pay in-state tuition rates at Florida's public universities instead of the significantly higher, out-of-state rates they have to pay now.

Former state Rep. Juan Carlos Zapata left the legislature last year due to term limits, but a version of a bill he wrote wants to provide in-state tuition breaks for undocumented students.  Zapata's bill is now being pushed by one of his former colleagues from South Miami-Dade, state Rep. Dwight Bullard.
 

There is little indication that bill will pass in the GOP-controlled House and Senate

Bullard called the proposed law the Florida Dream Act, referring to a federal bill blocked in Congress last month that would have granted legal status to hundreds of thousands of undocumented students and members of the military.

Read more about the bill

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/01/18/2022459/little-hope-seen-for-state-dream.html