Bill Text: NJ A2061 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Directs Board of Nursing to encourage nursing schools to give academic credit to students for training received in US military as corpsmen and medics.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-5)
Status: (Passed) 2014-01-02 - Approved P.L.2013, c.174. [A2061 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2012-A2061-Chaptered.html
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C.45:11-24.14
§2 - Note
An Act concerning nursing training and supplementing Title 45 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. The New Jersey Board of Nursing shall encourage schools of nursing approved by the board to consider granting a nursing student, who served in the United States military, academic credit toward the student's nursing degree for the student's prior training and experience as a Naval Corpsman or Army Medic.
2. This act shall take effect on the 90th day after enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill directs the New Jersey Board of Nursing to encourage schools of nursing approved by the board to consider granting a nursing student, who served in the United States military, academic credit toward the student's nursing degree for the student's prior training and experience as a Naval Corpsman or Army Medic.
Directs Board of Nursing to encourage nursing schools to give academic credit to students for training received in US military as corpsmen and medics.
