Texas Education Code - Section 61.9623. Grants
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§ 61.9623. GRANTS. (a) A grant from the professional
nursing shortage reduction program to a professional nursing
program or other entity involved with a professional nursing
program in the preparation of students for initial licensure as
registered nurses must be:
(1) expended exclusively on costs related to:
(A) enrolling additional students;
(B) nursing faculty enhancement in accordance
with Section 61.96231;
(C) encouraging innovation in the recruitment
and retention of students, including the recruitment and retention
of Spanish-speaking and bilingual students; or
(D) identifying, developing, or implementing
innovative methods to make the most effective use of limited
professional nursing program faculty, instructional or clinical
space, and other resources, including:
(i) sharing administrative or
instructional personnel, facilities, and responsibilities between
two or more professional nursing programs located in the same
region of this state; and
(ii) using preceptors to provide clinical
instruction in order to reduce the number of new faculty needed to
accommodate increased student enrollment in the professional
nursing program;
(2) contingent on the professional nursing program's
having been approved as a professional nursing program by the board
or the Board of Nurse Examiners, as appropriate, by September 1,
2001;
(3) contingent on the professional nursing program's
not being on probation with the Board of Nurse Examiners or other
accrediting body; and
(4) if granted to increase enrollments, contingent on
the professional nursing program's ability to enroll additional
students, including having the necessary classroom space and
clinical slots.
(b) Funds not expended on the costs described by Subsection
(a)(1) shall be returned to the board.
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1489, § 3, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
Renumbered from V.T.C.A., Education Code § 61.923 by Acts 2003,
78th Leg., ch. 1275, § 2(42), eff. Sept. 1, 2003. Amended by
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., ch. 674, § 3, eff. June 17, 2005.
Section: 61.9605 61.9606 61.9607 61.9608 61.9609 61.9621 61.9622 61.9623 61.96231 61.9624 61.9625 61.9626 61.96261 61.9627 61.9628
Last modified: August 11, 2007
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