Bill Text: CA AB1382 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Community colleges: STEM course fees.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1382 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB1382-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
April 03, 2017 |
Assembly Bill | No. 1382 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Grayson |
February 17, 2017 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law, until July 1, 2018, establishes the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree pilot program, under which the California State University is authorized to establish a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree pilot program at 3 campuses to award Doctor of Nursing Practice degrees, subject to specified program and enrollment requirements.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the Legislature’s findings and declarations relating to the pilot program.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:SEC. 2.
Section 76300.2 is added to the Education Code, to read:76300.2.
(a) Commencing with the 2018–19 academic year, the board of governors shall waive the fees, for enrollment in STEM courses only, for a student who graduated from a California high school after attending a California high school for at least two academic years.SEC. 3.
If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a)California faces an ever-increasing nursing shortage that jeopardizes the health and well-being of the state’s citizens.
(b)Colleges and universities need to expand nursing education programs to prepare more nurses to meet the state’s growing demand for nurses. An estimated state shortage of 47,600 registered nurses is expected by 2010, and by 2020 the shortage is projected to reach 116,600,
according to the Governor’s California Nurse Education Initiative Annual Report, September 2006.
(c)Well-trained nursing faculty and practitioners are critical to the ability to expand nursing programs.
(d)Because of the urgent need to prepare and graduate increased numbers of nurses, it is the intent of the Legislature to establish a pilot program that grants the California State University authority to offer the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree, as an exception to the Master Plan for Higher Education.