| 1 | Representative Grimsley offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment |
| 4 | Remove lines 239-252 and insert: |
| 5 | (5)(a) If a professional or practical nursing program's |
| 6 | average graduate passage rate for first-time test takers on the |
| 7 | National Council of State Boards of Nursing Licensing |
| 8 | Examination falls 10 percent or more below the national average |
| 9 | passage rate for first-time test takers educated in the United |
| 10 | States, as annually published by the contract testing service of |
| 11 | the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, for 2 |
| 12 | consecutive calendar years, the board shall place the program on |
| 13 | probation and the program director shall be required to appear |
| 14 | before the board to present a plan for remediation. The program |
| 15 | shall remain on probationary status until it achieves compliance |
| 16 | with the graduate passage rate requirement and shall be |
| 17 | terminated by the board under paragraph (d) if the program does |
| 18 | not achieve compliance within 2 calendar years. |
| 19 | (b) If a program fails to submit the annual report |
| 20 | required in subsection (2), the board shall place the program on |
| 21 | probation. The program shall remain on probationary status until |
| 22 | it submits the annual report and shall be terminated by the |
| 23 | board under paragraph (d) if it does not submit the annual |
| 24 | report within 6 months after the report's due date. |