Bill Text: CA AB1292 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Nursing: distance education nursing program students.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1292 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB1292-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1292
| Introduced by Assembly Member Flora |
February 16, 2023 |
An act to amend Section 2729 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1292, as amended, Flora.
Nursing: distance education nursing program students.
Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, establishes the Board of Registered Nursing to license and regulate the practice of nursing. The act prohibits a person from engaging in the practice of nursing without an active license but authorizes a student to render nursing services incidental to the student’s course of study, as specified. The act punishes a violation of its provisions as a misdemeanor.
This bill would additionally authorize a student to render nursing services who if the student is a resident of the state and enrolled in a prelicensure distance education nursing program based at an out-of-state private postsecondary educational institution,
as defined, for the purpose of gaining clinical experience in a clinical setting that meets certain criteria, including that the program is accredited by a programmatic accreditation entity recognized by the United States Department of Education. The bill would require a student described above to be supervised by a registered nurse licensed by the board while rendering nursing services. services and would prohibit a clinical agency or facility from scheduling a clinical experience placement with an out-of-state private postsecondary educational institution if the placement is needed to fulfill the clinical experience requirements of an in-state student enrolled in a board-approved nursing program.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 2729 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:2729.
A student may render nursing services if those services are incidental to the course of study of one of the following:(a) A student enrolled in a board-approved prelicensure program or school of nursing.
(b) A nurse licensed in another state or country taking a board-approved continuing education course or a postlicensure course.
(c) (1) A student who is a resident of the state and enrolled in a prelicensure distance education nursing program based at an
out-of-state private postsecondary educational institution for the purpose of gaining clinical experience in a clinical setting that meets both all of the following criteria:
(A) The program is accredited by a programmatic accreditation entity recognized by the United States Department of Education.
(B) The board has not otherwise approved the program.
(C) The student placement does not impact any students already assigned to the agency or facility.
(D) The prelicensure distance education nursing program does not make a payment to a clinical agency or facility in exchange for clinical experience placements.
(2) A student described by this subdivision shall be supervised in person by a registered nurse licensed by the board pursuant to this chapter while rendering nursing services.
(3) A clinical agency or facility shall not schedule a clinical experience placement with an out-of-state private postsecondary educational institution if the placement is needed to fulfill the clinical experience requirements of an in-state student
enrolled in a board-approved nursing program.
(d) For purposes of this section, “out-of-state private postsecondary educational institution” has the same meaning as defined in Section 94850.5 of the Education Code.
