(a) Authority. Authority for this subchapter is provided in the Texas Education Code, §54.356 (previously §54.222), Preceptors for Professional Nursing Education Programs. These rules establish procedures to administer this exemption program.
(b) Purpose. The purpose of this program is to provide partial exemptions from the payment of tuition to eligible persons employed as clinical preceptors and to their children in order to encourage the preceptors to continue their employment and induce others to seek such employment in the state of Texas.

Source Note: The provisions of this §21.309 adopted to be effective November 28, 2005, 30 TexReg 7872; amended to be effective February 28, 2012, 37 TexReg 1336; transferred effective March 1, 2017, as published in the Texas Register February 17, 2017, 42 TexReg 699