SLS 15RS-3954 ORIGINAL
2015 Regular Session
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 229
BY SENATORS GALLOT AND TARVER
NURSES. Directs the La. State Board of Nursing to make limited exceptions to the policy
known as the "eighty percent rule" for certain schools.
1 A RESOLUTION
2 To direct the Louisiana State Board of Nursing to make limited exceptions, on an emergency
3 basis, to the policy known as the "eighty percent rule" for certain schools.
4 WHEREAS, Chapter 11 of Title 37 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950,
5 comprised of R.S. 37:911 et seq., creates the Louisiana State Board of Nursing and provides
6 for the regulation of the practice of nursing in this state; and
7 WHEREAS, R.S. 24:177(B) provides, in pertinent part, that the legislature may
8 express the intended meaning of laws in a resolution.
9 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
10 does hereby direct the Louisiana State Board of Nursing to make limited exceptions, on an
11 emergency basis, to the policy known as the "eighty percent rule" for any school that has
12 presented a plan for restructuring its curriculum.
13 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
14 executive director of the Louisiana State Board of Nursing.
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SLS 15RS-3954 ORIGINAL
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Jerry J. Guillot.
DIGEST
SR 229 Original 2015 Regular Session Gallot
Directs the La. State Board of Nursing to make limited exceptions, on an emergency basis,
to the policy known as the "80% rule" for any school that has presented a plan for
restructuring its curriculum.
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