---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 1930"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "1930"
heading: "Cadets: charges and fees for attendance; limitation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/1930"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 19 — Coast Guard Academy"
  - "Subchapter II — Cadets"
---

# §1930. Cadets: charges and fees for attendance; limitation

- (a) **Prohibition.—** Except as provided in [subsection (b)](#b), no charge or fee for tuition, room, or board for attendance at the Academy may be imposed unless the charge or fee is specifically authorized by a law enacted after October 5, 1994.
- (b) **Exception.—** The prohibition specified in [subsection (a)](#a) does not apply with respect to any item or service provided to cadets for which a charge or fee is imposed as of October 5, 1994. The Secretary shall notify Congress of any change made by the Academy in the amount of a charge or fee authorized under this subsection.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 108–375, div. A, title V, § 545(d)(1), Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 1909, § 197; amended Pub. L. 113–281, title II, § 222(2), Dec. 18, 2014, 128 Stat. 3038; renumbered § 1930, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 110(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4212.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 197 of this title as this section.

2014—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 113–281 struck out “of Homeland Security” after “Secretary”.