Senate Bill 101 Senate Author: Van de Putte
Effective: 5-3-05 House Sponsor: McClendon
Provisions of the Education Code, known informally as the Hinson-Hazelwood Act, waive tuition and certain fees for up to 150 credit hours at a public institution of higher education in Texas for veterans and certain dependents of those veterans. Senate Bill 101 amends the Education Code to require each institution to electronically report to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, after each semester and summer session, information relating to each individual benefiting from such a waiver. The information to be reported includes certain identifying information and the semester and total cumulative credit hours for which charges were waived. The bill requires the board to develop an electronic monitoring system to receive the information.