VA SB953 | 2025 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 6 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-23 - Reported from Education and Health with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
Pending: Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
Hearing: Jan 27 @ 9:00 am in House Committee Room A - 008
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]
Status: Introduced on January 6 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-23 - Reported from Education and Health with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
Pending: Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
Hearing: Jan 27 @ 9:00 am in House Committee Room A - 008
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]
Summary
Certain practical nursing programs; common curriculum; transferability to registered nursing programs; pathway of stackable credentials. Requires the Virginia Community College System, in consultation with the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the Board of Nursing, and representatives from associate-degree-granting public institutions of higher education that offer nursing programs, to develop a common curriculum for practical nursing programs that shall be implemented at each comprehensive community college in the System that offers a practical nursing program. The bill requires such common curriculum, to the extent possible, to (i) align with the degree requirements for registered nursing programs offered at associate-degree-granting public institutions of higher education and (ii) be transferable to each registered nursing program offered at an associate-degree-granting public institution of higher education. The bill (a) requires each associate-degree-granting public institution of higher education that offers a registered nursing degree program to participate in a practical nursing program to registered nursing program transfer agreement with the System that aligns with the practical nursing program common curriculum established pursuant to the bill and (b) permits any private institution of higher education that offers a registered nursing degree program to be consulted regarding and participate on a voluntary basis in such a transfer agreement. The bill also requires the System to establish a pathway of stackable nursing credentials that consists of a practical nursing to associate registered nursing to bachelor of science in nursing program pathway.
Title
Practical nursing programs, certain; transferability to registered nursing programs, etc.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2025-01-23 - Senate - Reported from Education and Health with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-23 | Senate | Reported from Education and Health with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-01-23 | Senate | Incorporates SB791(Head) |
| 2025-01-20 | Senate | Assigned Education sub: Higher Education |
| 2025-01-06 | Senate | Referred to Committee on Education and Health |
| 2025-01-06 | Senate | Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104229D |
