Bill Text: TX SB794 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the use of money from the permanent fund for health-related programs to provide grants to nursing education programs.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [SB794 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB794-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 794 |
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relating to the use of money from the permanent fund for | ||
health-related programs to provide grants to nursing education | ||
programs. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subsections (f) and (g), Section 63.202, | ||
Education Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(f) Notwithstanding the limitation provided by Subsection | ||
(b), grants awarded under Subsection (c) for the state fiscal | ||
biennium ending on August 31, 2013 [ |
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ending on August 31, 2015 [ |
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Coordinating Board shall be awarded to programs preparing students | ||
for initial licensure as registered nurses or programs preparing | ||
qualified faculty members with a master's or doctoral degree for | ||
the program, including programs at two-year institutions of higher | ||
education, four-year general academic teaching institutions, | ||
health science centers, and independent or private institutions of | ||
higher education, or to the nursing resource section established | ||
under Section 105.002(b), Health and Safety Code. In awarding | ||
grants under this subsection, the coordinating board may: | ||
(1) give priority to institutions proposing to address | ||
the shortage of registered nurses by promoting innovation in | ||
education, recruitment, and retention of nursing students and | ||
qualified faculty; | ||
(2) award grants on a competitive basis; | ||
(3) consider the availability of matching funds; and | ||
(4) fund a study by the nursing resource section to | ||
evaluate the competencies of clinical judgment and behaviors that | ||
professional nursing students should possess at the time of | ||
graduation. | ||
(g) Subsection (f) and this subsection expire September 1, | ||
2015 [ |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 794 passed the Senate on | ||
April 7, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 794 passed the House on | ||
May 20, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 149, Nays 0, one | ||
present not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |