I agree with you but most of those are federal mandates. Perry had no control over them and the instate tuition passed the legislature with 175 “yes” votes and 4 “no” votes. This has been passed in many other states.
Why didn’t he veto it then? Then I read where in the debate he thought it was a good thing to do? How can the fed’s mandate against the Constitution? Oh, wait .... okay I get it.