Tuition benefits; appropriation of funds.

The Alabama Commission on Higher Education shall serve as fiscal agent. Each institution shall submit to the Alabama Commission on Higher Education a copy of the guard member's completed application which shall serve as a basis of payment. Neither ACHE nor the public institutions shall pay nor be held responsible for tuition benefits to otherwise eligible students in the Alabama National Guard Education Assistance Program which are in excess of available appropriations. The tuition benefits of this program shall be mandated only to the extent that funds are appropriated by the Legislature for the program.

(Acts 1993, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 93-910, p. 207, §1(7).)