Tennessee Code Title 49. Education § 49-4-924

(a) TSAC is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to establish deadlines for applications, appeal procedures for the denial or revocation of scholarships and grants, methods of paying scholarship awards to part-time students and to otherwise effectuate the purposes of this part. The rules and regulations shall be promulgated in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5.

(b) TSAC shall promulgate rules and regulations to provide for repayment or partial repayment of a scholarship or grant awarded to a student who subsequently withdraws from courses or from the postsecondary institution. The rules shall be comparable to rules for repayment of other financial aid available to postsecondary students. No repayment shall be required if a full-time undergraduate student withdraws from a course and the withdrawal does not reduce the student's course load below twelve (12) semester hours, or if a graduate student withdraws from a course and the withdrawal does not reduce the student's course load below the number of hours required for full-time attendance as a graduate student by the institution attended. All students shall be notified of the consequences of withdrawing from courses or from the institution when notified of the award of a scholarship or grant. The rules and regulations shall be promulgated in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act.

(c) THEC is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this part. The rules and regulations shall be promulgated in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act.

(d) Notwithstanding the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act or any other law to the contrary, TSAC and THEC are authorized to promulgate emergency rules to implement this part.

(e) Costs incurred by TSAC and THEC in administering the educational programs created under this part that provide financial assistance to enable citizens of this state to attend postsecondary educational institutions shall be funded from the lottery for education account as part of the programs.