BILL NUMBER: AB 1295	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Fuller

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act relating to nursing degree programs.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1295, as introduced, Fuller. Postsecondary education: nursing
degree programs.
   Existing law establishes the University of California, the
California State University, and the California Community Colleges as
the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in this state.
Under existing law, the Chancellor of the California Community
Colleges is required to encourage community college districts to, and
the Chancellor of the California State University is required to,
standardize all nursing education program prerequisites on a
statewide basis and negotiate and implement articulation agreements
among the campuses and districts of these 2 segments.
   Existing law, the Entry-Level Master's Nursing Programs Act, among
other things, requires the Chancellor of the California State
University to determine which campuses are eligible for supplemental
funds for establishing entry-level master's programs in nursing.
   Existing law expresses the intent of the Legislature that, with
respect to nursing programs at the University of California, the
Regents of the University of California should expand nursing
programs to enroll additional students, as specified.
   This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to create a model program that facilitates and expedites,
for licensed registered nurses who have completed associate degrees
in nursing, the completion of coursework necessary to earn a bachelor
of science in nursing degree or a master of science in nursing
degree and to create programs that facilitate the completion of
master of science in nursing degrees by students with baccalaureate
degrees who are enrolled in associate degree nursing programs.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to do both of the following:
   (a) Create a model program that facilitates and expedites, for
licensed registered nurses who have completed associate degrees in
nursing, the completion of coursework necessary to earn a bachelor of
science in nursing degree or master of science in nursing degree.
   (b) Create programs that facilitate the completion of master of
science in nursing degrees by students who have completed
baccalaureate degrees and who are enrolled in associate degree in
nursing programs.