Bill Text: TX SB1227 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the approval and operation of vocational nursing educational programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-05 - Left pending in committee [SB1227 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1227-Introduced.html
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| By: Campbell | S.B. No. 1227 | |
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| relating to the approval and operation of vocational nursing | ||
| educational programs. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 301, Occupations Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 301.1575 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 301.1575. APPROVAL AND OPERATION OF VOCATIONAL NURSING | ||
| EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS. The board may not adopt a rule applicable to | ||
| the approval or operation of a vocational nursing educational | ||
| program that: | ||
| (1) requires the applicant to submit, as part of the | ||
| application for approval, letters in support of the program's | ||
| proposed operation in the community; | ||
| (2) requires initial approval to be on a provisional | ||
| basis; | ||
| (3) imposes a limit on enrollment; | ||
| (4) requires the program to have a licensing | ||
| examination passage rate that exceeds: | ||
| (A) 80 percent for the first two academic years | ||
| for which graduates are eligible to take the licensing examination; | ||
| or | ||
| (B) 70 percent for any subsequent academic year; | ||
| or | ||
| (5) prohibits a program with more than one campus from | ||
| combining licensing examination passage rates for graduates from | ||
| all campuses when determining the program's passage rate for an | ||
| academic year. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
