Bill Text: TX HB4104 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a nursing dual credit pilot program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-21 - Referred to Higher Education [HB4104 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4104-Introduced.html
| 88R10177 KJE-D | ||
| By: A. Johnson of Harris | H.B. No. 4104 | |
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| relating to a nursing dual credit pilot program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 28, Education Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Subchapter D to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER D. NURSING DUAL CREDIT PILOT PROGRAM | ||
| Sec. 28.101. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: | ||
| (1) "College" means Houston Community College. | ||
| (2) "Coordinating board" means the Texas Higher | ||
| Education Coordinating Board. | ||
| (3) "District" means the Houston Independent School | ||
| District. | ||
| (4) "School of nursing" means The University of Texas | ||
| Health Science Center at Houston Cizik School of Nursing. | ||
| Sec. 28.102. NURSING DUAL CREDIT PILOT PROGRAM. (a) From | ||
| money appropriated or otherwise available for the purpose, the | ||
| agency and the coordinating board jointly shall establish a nursing | ||
| dual credit pilot program through which students enrolled at | ||
| Houston Independent School District may graduate from high school | ||
| with a certificate in licensed vocational nursing from Houston | ||
| Community College, with assistance from The University of Texas | ||
| Health Science Center at Houston Cizik School of Nursing. | ||
| (b) The pilot program must: | ||
| (1) provide for an introductory summer nursing day | ||
| camp for interested students who are entering eighth grade; | ||
| (2) require students to apply to participate in the | ||
| pilot program during the students' eighth grade year; | ||
| (3) provide for a three-week summer nursing boot camp | ||
| for participating students entering ninth grade; | ||
| (4) provide for each participating student to be | ||
| jointly enrolled in high school in the district and in the college's | ||
| licensed vocational nursing certificate program beginning with the | ||
| student's ninth grade year; | ||
| (5) enable each participating student to graduate from | ||
| high school with a certificate in licensed vocational nursing; | ||
| (6) enable participating students to continue | ||
| postsecondary education after graduation from high school by | ||
| completing at the college: | ||
| (A) the associate degree in nursing program; or | ||
| (B) the prerequisites for the bachelor of science | ||
| in nursing program at the school of nursing; and | ||
| (7) require the school of nursing to assist | ||
| participating students by: | ||
| (A) pairing each participating student with a | ||
| nurse mentor to assist the student throughout the student's | ||
| participation in the program; | ||
| (B) providing preparatory courses for: | ||
| (i) the required examinations for admission | ||
| to the associate degree in nursing program at the college or the | ||
| bachelor of science in nursing program at the school of nursing; and | ||
| (ii) the examinations for licensure as a | ||
| licensed vocational nurse or as a registered nurse; and | ||
| (C) ensuring that the students complete the | ||
| prerequisites for the associate degree in nursing program at the | ||
| college and the bachelor of science in nursing program at the school | ||
| of nursing. | ||
| Sec. 28.103. ANNUAL REPORT. Not later than December 1 of | ||
| each year, the district, the college, and the school of nursing | ||
| jointly shall prepare and submit to the agency and the coordinating | ||
| board a report on the pilot program. The report must include | ||
| information regarding the curriculum and student recruitment | ||
| efforts. | ||
| Sec. 28.104. MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING. The agency and | ||
| the coordinating board jointly shall enter into a memorandum of | ||
| understanding with the district, the college, and the school of | ||
| nursing regarding the allocation of money to those institutions for | ||
| the pilot program. | ||
| Sec. 28.105. REPORT TO LEGISLATURE. Not later than | ||
| September 1, 2028, the agency and the coordinating board jointly | ||
| shall submit to the legislature a report that: | ||
| (1) evaluates the success of the pilot program; and | ||
| (2) makes recommendations regarding the continuation | ||
| or expansion of the pilot program. | ||
| Sec. 28.106. EXPIRATION. This subchapter expires September | ||
| 1, 2029. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2024, the Houston | ||
| Independent School District, Houston Community College, and The | ||
| University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Cizik School | ||
| of Nursing jointly shall submit the initial report required under | ||
| Section 28.103, Education Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2023. | ||
