California Education Code

§ 78260

EDC § 78260 Effective Jan 1, 2007Div. 7 · Title 3 · Part 48 · Ch. 2 · Art. 3.51

Statute text

(a)(1) In order to further the state’s interests in a major expansion in the number of educated nurses in California, the Legislature finds that it is necessary to ensure a significant expansion in the number of qualified nursing faculty at California Community Colleges. Therefore, the Legislature hereby creates the California Community Colleges Nursing Faculty Recruitment and Retention Program in the Chancellor’s Office of the California Community Colleges for purposes of facilitating the recruitment and retention of qualified nursing faculty. The Chancellor of the California Community Colleges shall allocate funds on a competitive grant basis to community college districts that commit to sustained increases in the number of full-time equivalent students taught in the district’s nursing programs, as specified by the chancellor, and that also commit to the terms and conditions specified in this section.

(2)It is the intent of the Legislature that the grants awarded under this article should be one-time grants and that the total amount of the funding for this article in any fiscal year should be limited to the amount appropriated for that purpose in the annual Budget Act. The Legislature finds and declares that the initial funding for this article is the appropriation contained in paragraph (30) of subdivision (a) of Section 43 of Chapter 79 of the Statutes of 2006.

(b)(1) (A) The grant amount to each participating district shall be based on the number of full-time faculty at the district who are in their first through fifth year of service as an instructor in a California Community College registered nursing program in the fiscal year for which funds are disbursed. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a community college district that receives an allocation for the making of grants under this article shall have up to five years to disburse these funds.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2006, Ch. 837, Sec. 18. Effective January 1, 2007.