Senate Bill sb1256c1

    Florida Senate - 2001                           CS for SB 1256

    By the Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care; and
    Senator Campbell




    317-1733-01

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to nursing education;

  3         prohibiting the Board of Nursing from

  4         developing any rule relating to faculty/student

  5         clinical ratios until a specified time;

  6         requiring the Board of Nursing and the

  7         Department of Education to submit to the

  8         Legislature an implementation plan detailing

  9         the impact and cost of any such proposed rule

10         change; providing an effective date.

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12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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14         Section 1.  The Board of Nursing within the Department

15  of Health shall hold in abeyance until July 1, 2002, the

16  development of any rule pursuant to section 464.019(2),

17  Florida Statutes, which relates to the establishment of

18  faculty/student clinical ratios. The Board of Nursing and the

19  Department of Education shall submit to the President of the

20  Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives by

21  December 31, 2001, an implementation plan that details both

22  the impact and the cost of any such proposed rule change.

23         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2001.

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    Florida Senate - 2001                           CS for SB 1256
    317-1733-01




  1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
  2                         Senate Bill 1256

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  4  The Committee Substitute requires the Board of Nursing to hold
    in abeyance until July 1, 2002, the development of any rule
  5  pursuant to s. 464.019, F.S., which relates to the
    establishment of faculty/student clinical ratios. The Board of
  6  Nursing and the Department of Education must submit to the
    President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of
  7  Representatives by December 31, 2001, an implementation plan
    that details both the impact and the cost of any such proposed
  8  rule change.

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