[FISCAL NOTES] Hazlewood Act: A Unique Benefit for Texas Veterans and Their Families
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts sent this bulletin at 08/01/2016 10:19 AM CDT
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The August issue of Fiscal Notes leads with an examination of Texas’ Hazlewood Act, which provides up to 150 credit hours of free coursework at Texas public colleges and universities to veterans, their children or their survivors.
Hazlewood benefits are a boon to Texas veterans and their families, but some Texas institutions of higher education are chafing under its costs, which are largely borne by the individual institutions rather than the state. Since a 2009 amendment to the act allowed living veterans to transfer these benefits to their children, Hazlewood costs have spiraled upward by more than 600 percent. We examine the history and costs of this program. We also continue the examination of Texas’ local sales taxes begun in our May issue, discussing issues concerning the tax’s allocation to more than 1,500 local jurisdictions as well as its administration by the Comptroller’s office.
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