1. (a) Authority. Authority for this section is Texas Education Code, §51.9112, Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) Program: Fees and Course Credit.
2. (b) The Coordinating Board shall determine a standard fee for a course offered through a Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program using the methodology described in subsection (d) of this section.
3. (c) An institution of higher education may not charge a student enrolled in an ROTC course any amount for the course in excess of the standard fee, unless the institution offers course credit toward the student's degree for a course in which the student enrolls for the purposes of an ROTC program. In that case, the institution may charge the student tuition for that course after subtracting any reimbursement or other amount the institution receives from the applicable military service or other source for offering the course.

4. (d) Methodology. Each year, the Coordinating Board will determine the standard ROTC fee for the forthcoming fiscal year using the procedure detailed in this subsection.

   1. (1) The Coordinating Board identifies (by querying the CBM0CS database for military science courses) all institutions of higher education with ROTC programs.
   2. (2) Using the General Academic Institution Expenditure Study, the Coordinating Board identifies the total non-salary expenditures and semester credit hours associated with upper- and lower-level undergraduate courses in the Liberal Arts discipline for the institutions identified in paragraph (1) of this subsection.
   3. (3) The data described by paragraph (2) of this subsection for the previous three fiscal years are used to forecast values for the current and forthcoming fiscal year using the FORECAST function in Microsoft Excel or a comparable forecasting function. Current fiscal year values are forecasted because actual values are not available at the time of calculation.
   4. (4) The Coordinating Board divides the forecasted expenditures for the forthcoming fiscal year by the forecasted semester credit hours for the forthcoming fiscal year, yielding a forecasted average expenditure per semester credit hour for the forthcoming fiscal year.
   5. (5) The forecasted average expenditure per semester credit hour for the forthcoming fiscal year described by paragraph (4) of this subsection is the standard ROTC program fee for the forthcoming fiscal year. This standard fee is determined annually by the Coordinating Board pursuant to Texas Education Code, §51.9112, and published on the Coordinating Board website.

Source Note:The provisions of this §13.128 adopted to be effective August 14, 2025, 50 TexReg 5214.