8-50-114 - Continuing education Limited waiver of tuition and fees. - Tennessee Statutes

8-50-114. Continuing education Limited waiver of tuition and fees.

(a)  (1)  Full-time employees of the state of Tennessee are eligible for enrollment in one (1) course per term at any state-supported college or university, technology center or the Tennessee Foreign Language Institute without paying tuition charges, maintenance fees, student activity fees, registration fees or online course fees for courses taken through the regents online degree programs; provided, that availability of waivers of online course fees for courses taken through the regents online degree program shall be limited each year by the amount of funds specifically appropriated for such online course fee waivers in the general appropriations act.

     (2)  For purposes of this section, current members of the general assembly shall be considered as full-time employees of the state of Tennessee.

(b)  Enrollment privileges may be limited or denied by the college, university, technology center or Tennessee Foreign Language Institute on an individual basis according to space availability. Enrollment under this section is on a first-come, first-served basis. No tuition-paying student shall be denied enrollment in a course because of a state employee enrollment pursuant to this section.

(c)  Courses taken under this section are governed by the academic rules and regulations of the institution or school offering the course or courses.

(d)  The provisions of this section do not diminish or affect in any way the rights provided to full-time employees of the state university and community college system and the University of Tennessee in § 49-7-116.

(e)  The Tennessee higher education commission is hereby directed, authorized and empowered to promulgate and adopt such rules and regulations as are necessary to implement the provisions of this section, including rules and regulations for the allocation of appropriations specifically appropriated for the implementation of the provisions of this section.

(f)  (1)  The number of students permitted to attend classes beyond the limits established in this section or in the general appropriations act for any fiscal year shall be discounted from the effects of the higher education funding formula by the Tennessee higher education commission.

     (2)  Any reimbursements to the state-supported colleges, universities or area vocational-technical schools for the enrollments provided by this section shall be limited to those funds specifically appropriated for that purpose in the general appropriations act. Such reimbursement shall be limited to assessed charges and fees of enrollment.

     (3)  Any reimbursement to the Tennessee Foreign Language Institute for enrollments provided by this section shall be limited to those funds specifically appropriated for the fee waiver and fee discount programs authorized by this section and §§ 8-50-115 and 49-7-119.

[Acts 1990, ch. 1047, § 1; 2004, ch. 883, §§ 1, 2; 2007, ch. 554, § 1.]