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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 1095
January Session, 2025
LCO No. 2476
Referred to Committee on HIGHER EDUCATION AND
EMPLOYMENT ADVANCEMENT
Introduced by:
SEN. MARONEY, 14th Dist.
AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE STONE ACADEMY NURSING
EDUCATION SUPPORT PROGRAM.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That the Office of Higher Education (1) administer a scholarship 1
program to be known as the Stone Academy Nursing Education 2
Support Program to allocate not less than ten million dollars during a 3
five-year period to former students of the practical nurse education 4
program at Stone Academy to pursue an advanced nursing degree at 5
accredited programs, and (2) report on the impact of said program on 6
the health care workforce. 7
Statement of Purpose:
To establish a scholarship program to allocate not less than ten million
dollars during a five-year period to former students of the practical
nurse education program at Stone Academy to pursue an advanced
nursing degree at accredited programs and require the Office of Higher
Education to report on the impact of such program on the health care
workforce.