Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 526
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/04/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Health Policy (Harrell) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         Delete lines 241 - 267
    4  and insert:
    5  equal or exceed the required passage rates for 2 consecutive
    6  calendar years, the board must shall place the program on
    7  probationary status pursuant to chapter 120 and the program
    8  director must submit a written remediation plan to the board.
    9  The program director must shall appear before the board to
   10  present the a plan for remediation, which must shall include
   11  specific nationally recognized benchmarks to identify progress
   12  toward a graduate passage rate goal. The board must terminate a
   13  program pursuant to chapter 120 if the program director fails to
   14  submit a written remediation plan or fails to appear before the
   15  board and present the remediation plan no later than 6 months
   16  after the date of the program being placed on probation. The
   17  program’s director is also subject to discipline under s.
   18  456.072(1)(k) for such failure. The program must remain on
   19  probationary status until it achieves a graduate passage rate
   20  that equals or exceeds the required passage rate for any 1
   21  calendar year. The board must shall deny a program application
   22  for a new prelicensure nursing education program submitted by an
   23  educational institution if the institution has an existing
   24  program that is already on probationary status.
   25         3. Upon the program’s achievement of a graduate passage
   26  rate that equals or exceeds the required passage rate, the
   27  board, at its next regularly scheduled meeting following release
   28  of the program’s graduate passage rate by the National Council
   29  of State Boards of Nursing, shall remove the program’s
   30  probationary status. If the program, during the 2 calendar years
   31  following its placement on probationary status, does not