1. (a) DRS purchases vocational and other training services for consumers who require additional knowledge or skills to enter employment consistent with their aptitudes and ability, and compatible with their physical or mental impairments.
2. (b) DRS purchases vocational and other training through an appropriate facility. These facilities include accredited colleges and universities, certified public or private businesses, technical and vocational schools, on-the-job training, correspondence course training, tutorial training, and community rehabilitation program training.
3. (c) DRS requires that each consumer who is provided with vocational or other training services by DRS apply for financial assistance where reasonably available. This assistance can include federal, state, or local grants-in-aid and private scholarships where applicable. If the consumer has not done so before the time of application for vocational rehabilitation services, the counselor assists the consumer in doing so.
4. (d) DRS does not pay the nonresident fee to a college or university outside Texas if the course is available at a school within Texas, but does pay tuition at the same rate as would have been paid to a comparable college in Texas.
5. (e) DRS does not pay tuition and fees to a business, technical, or vocational school in excess of the published fees.

Source Note:The provisions of this §856.45 adopted to be effective December 10, 2012, 37 TexReg 9651; duplicated effective September 1, 2016, as published in the Texas Register September 2, 2016, 41 TexReg 6773.