2015 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 229
BY SENATORS GALLOT AND TARVER
A RESOLUTION
To direct the Louisiana State Board of Nursing to make limited exceptions, on an emergency
basis, to the policy known as the "eighty percent rule" for certain schools.
WHEREAS, Chapter 11 of Title 37 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950,
comprised of R.S. 37:911 et seq., creates the Louisiana State Board of Nursing and provides
for the regulation of the practice of nursing in this state; and
WHEREAS, R.S. 24:177(B) provides, in pertinent part, that the legislature may
express the intended meaning of laws in a resolution.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby direct the Louisiana State Board of Nursing to make limited exceptions, on an
emergency basis, to the policy known as the "eighty percent rule" for any school that has
presented a plan for restructuring its curriculum.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
executive director of the Louisiana State Board of Nursing.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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