Tuition And Fees

Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution, the Hazlewood Act's provision of benefits to only those individuals who resided in Texas at the time they entered the service rationally furthers legitimate state interests, should withstand rational basis review, and should therefore be held constitutional under the Equal Protection Clause

B-On-Time Loan Program, additional credit hours taken at an institution other than the degree-awarding institution may not disqualify a student from having a B-On-Time loan forgiven

Opinion Withdrawn 1/14/2008 - Superseded by statute, Tex. Educ. Code Ann. § 54.203|Opinion Withdrawn 1/14/08

Fire science courses offered at institutions of higher education, "fire science" is a technical term referring to courses that fall within a designated fire science curriculum as well as courses primarily related to fire service, emergency medicine, emergency management, or public administration regardless of whether those courses fall within the curriculum designed as "fire science"|Tuition for fire fighters enrolled in fire science courses, fire fighter seeking exemption from tuition need not be pursuing a degree in fire science and may already have a degree in fire science|Tuition and laboratory fees at public junior colleges and four-year colleges and universities, a fire fighter is exempt from paying|Tuition and fees at public junior colleges, a public junior college's charges are what the college designates them to be|Tuition for fire fighters enrolled in fire science courses, fire fighter seeking exemption from tuition need not be pursuing a degree in fire science and may already have a degree in fire science\r\n|Public junior college's charges are what the college designates them to be|Houston Community College's "general fee" is not tuition|Houston Community College, to the extent that it assesses a fee for its operation, that fee would be tuition and a fire fighter exempt from paying tuition would have to pay that non-tuition fee|Fire science|Tuition|Fee

Opinion Withdrawn 1/14/2008 - superseded by statute, Tex. Educ. Code Ann. § 54.203

Statutes providing for unauthorized aliens to receive in-state tuition at Texas state colleges and universities, whether they violate federal law and federal equal protection

Loan proposal that would require college and private lender to share risk of students defaulting on their loans and might require college to discount tuition must comply with statutory provisions regarding the reduction of tuition in chapter 54, Education Code|Texas State Technical College’s discharge of student loans would be constitutional only if made for a legitimate public purpose and if adequate controls existed to ensure that the public purpose is met

Resident tuition rates, nonresident scholarship recipient may be eligible for if scholarship is competitive academic scholarship (Affirmed by Tex. Att'y Gen. LO-94-035)|Statutory authority to adopt rule, agency must cite in final order adopting rule; but failure to do so, by itself, does not invalidate rule where other, uncited statutes authorize rule (Affirmed by Tex. Att'y Gen. LO-94-035)|Competitive academic scholarship, Board's criteria for may not exceed or be inconsistent with statute (Affirmed by Tex. Att'y Gen. LO-94-035)

Parking fee, state university may charge to students, faculty, and staff, even if disabled

Cold War|Student fees imposed by University of Texas at Austin, exemption for persons honorably discharged from armed forces during "cold war"

College or university governing board may not waive collection of fees unless expressly authorized by statute|College or university medical-service fee, governing board may not waive payment of from active-duty personnel unless expressly permitted by statute|Fees, governing board may not waive collection of from employees or their dependents unless expressly permitted by statute|Discretionary fee must be compulsory where statute does not specify whether compulsory or voluntary|Voluntary fee, governing board may not charge of a student who will not use the service|Waiver of fee for employees and dependents, governing board may not grant unless expressly permitted by statute|Compulsory fee|Voluntary fee

Fixed-point residence requirement, statute exempting certain honorably discharged, resident veterans from college tuition is probably unconstitutional|Fixed-point residence requirement, statute exempting certain honorably discharged, resident veterans from tuition is probably unconstitutional|Retroactively applied, a court probably would use three-part test to determine whether judicially modified statute will be

Infrastructure charge, authority of University of Texas to collect under section 55.16 of the Education Code is subject to limits in section 54.0513 of the Education Code if it is equivalent of building use fee|Infrastructure charge, authority of University of Texas to collect from students under section 55.16 of the Education Code to fund building renovation and repair depends on whether or not it is equivalent of building use fee