88R10294 JTZ-D
By: Campbell S.B. No. 1227
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the approval and operation of vocational nursing
educational programs.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 301, Occupations Code, is
amended by adding Section 301.1575 to read as follows:
Sec. 301.1575. APPROVAL AND OPERATION OF VOCATIONAL NURSING
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS. The board may not adopt a rule applicable to
the approval or operation of a vocational nursing educational
program that:
(1) requires the applicant to submit, as part of the
application for approval, letters in support of the program's
proposed operation in the community;
(2) requires initial approval to be on a provisional
basis;
(3) imposes a limit on enrollment;
(4) requires the program to have a licensing
examination passage rate that exceeds:
(A) 80 percent for the first two academic years
for which graduates are eligible to take the licensing examination;
or
(B) 70 percent for any subsequent academic year;
or
(5) prohibits a program with more than one campus from
combining licensing examination passage rates for graduates from
all campuses when determining the program's passage rate for an
academic year.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.