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Texas veterans and their children would see their higher education benefits sliced significantly under a plan heading to the Senate floor.
Tuition exemption costs under the so-called Hazlewood Exemption have skyrocketed from $24.7 million in fiscal year 2010 to $169 million in fiscal year 2014. Texas’ higher education institutions shoulder the bulk of those costs.
A plan by Republican Sen. Brian Birdwell, the Senate’s most senior military veteran, to address the financial shortfalls passed out of committee Wednesday, but not without criticism.
The bill would require beneficiaries to live in Texas for eight years and would cut free tuition down from 150 hours to
120 hours. It also limits the number of hours a veteran may pass on to a child to 60. The benefits would all expire 15 years after the veteran left military service.
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