A proposal is advancing in the Florida House that would allow high-performing students who live outside of Florida to pay in-state tuition rates at public universities if their grandparents reside in the Sunshine State. House Bill 1273 is called the “grandparent tuition waiver bill” by House sponsor Patt Maney, from Shalimar. It would let out-of-state students scoring in the 89th percentile or higher on the ACT or SAT exams enroll as full-time students at Florida universities and pay cheaper in-state tuition. The proposal was approved Wednesday by the House Post-Secondary Education and Lifelong Learning Subcommittee. Under the House measure, the out-of-state students’ grandparents would have to be legal residents of Florida.