Questions for a Texas Veteran Student

They're really scared about the Hazlewood Act right now. This one guy, a law student who acted as his own attorney, sued on the basis that requiring him to have processed MEPS in Texas is a restriction on his freedom of movement. He won the case, but it only applies to him. The rest of us have to wait until the case plays itself out in appeals. Texas has decided to let him go to school on their dollar, and appeal it, and he doesn't fight the appeal.

However, it's a big problem, because if every vet who is a resident of Texas was entitled to $150k worth of free education, it would bankrupt all the state schools, who have to just eat the tuition for each Hazlewood student. So, the legislature was supposed to address it in 2015. They failed to get anything passed. So, they're supposed to address it again this year.

So far as I know, anyone who can get a lawyer who is interested in making a fuckton of enemies in the state government and academia in Texas, can probably successfully sue to get coverage under the Hazlewood Act. So far as I know, no one else has tried.

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