Sponsored by:
Senator JOSEPH F. VITALE
District 19 (Middlesex)
SYNOPSIS
Supplemental appropriation of $2 million for grants to certain nursing schools to address shortage of nursing faculty.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
A Supplement to "An Act making appropriations for the support of the State Government and the several public purposes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved June 30, 2011 (P.L.2011, c.85).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and the General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. In addition to the amounts appropriated under P.L.2011, c.85, there is appropriated out of the General Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:
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82 DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 30 Education, Cultural and Intellectual Development 36 Higher Educational Services
GRANTS-IN-AID |
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49-2155 Miscellaneous Higher Education Programs................... |
$2,000,000 |
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Grants-in-Aid: |
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49 RN Nursing program faculty enhancement grants...... |
($2,000,000) |
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The monies hereinabove appropriated are for the purpose of addressing the shortage of nursing faculty by providing a grant of $50,000 to each of the accredited nursing education programs in the State for registered professional nurses. The grants shall be used by the programs to support graduate education in nursing for current nursing faculty at the masters and doctoral levels and for the recruitment and retention of faculty in order to increase the number of qualified nursing faculty.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill appropriates $2,000,000 from the General Fund to the Department of the Treasury for the purpose of providing a grant of $50,000 to each of the accredited registered professional nurse education programs in the State to address the shortage of nursing faculty. The funds will be provided to nursing programs at public and private institutions of higher education and at hospital-based nursing schools.
The grants shall be used by the programs to support graduate education in nursing for current nursing faculty at the masters and doctoral levels and for the recruitment and retention of faculty in order to increase the number of qualified nursing faculty.