Nursing: students in out-of-state nursing programs.
AB 1082
California Bills
20250AB__108299INT INTRODUCED 2025-02-20 AB INT Introduced by Assembly Member Flora LEAD_AUTHOR ASSEMBLY Flora
An act to amend
Section of the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts. healing arts Nursing: students in out-of-state nursing programs. Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, establishes the Board of Registered Nursing to license and regulate the practice of nursing. The act prohibits a person from engaging in the practice of nursing without an active license but authorizes a student to render nursing services incidental to the student’s course of study, as specified.
This bill would additionally authorize a student to render nursing services if the student is a resident of the state and enrolled in a prelicensure distance education nursing program based at an out-of-state private postsecondary educational institution, as defined, for the purpose of gaining clinical experience in a clinical setting that meets certain criteria, including that the program is accredited by a programmatic accreditation entity recognized by the United States Department of Education and that the program maintains minimum faculty to student ratios required of board-approved programs for inperson clinical experiences.
The bill would require the student to be supervised in person by a registered nurse licensed by the board while rendering nursing services. The bill would prohibit a clinical agency or facility from offering clinical experience placements to an out-of-state private postsecondary educational institution if the placements are needed to fulfill the clinical experience requirements of in-state students enrolled in a board-approved nursing program. MAJORITY NO YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read: 2729. A student may render nursing services if those services are incidental to the course of study of one of the following: (
a) A student enrolled in a board-approved prelicensure program or school of nursing. (
b) A nurse licensed in another state or country taking a board-approved continuing education course or a postlicensure course. (c)
(1) A student who is a resident of the state and enrolled in a prelicensure distance education nursing program based at an out-of-state private postsecondary educational institution for the purpose of gaining clinical experience in a clinical setting that meets all of the following criteria: (
A) The program is accredited by a programmatic accreditation entity recognized by the United States Department of Education. (
B) The board does not otherwise approve the program. (
C) The student placement does not impact any students already assigned to the agency or facility. (
D) The program does not make payments to any clinical agency or facility in exchange for clinical experience placements for students enrolled in a nursing program offered by or affiliated with the institution or private postsecondary school of nursing. (
E) The program qualifies graduates for licensure under this chapter. (
F) The program maintains minimum faculty to student ratios required of board-approved programs for inperson clinical experiences. (
G) The program pays a one-time fee of one hundred dollars ($100) to the board for each student under this subdivision who participates in clinical experience placements in the state.
(2) A student described by this subdivision shall be supervised in person by a registered nurse licensed by the board pursuant to this
chapter while rendering nursing services.
(3) A clinical agency or facility shall not offer clinical experience placements to an out-of-state private postsecondary educational institution if the placements are needed to fulfill the clinical experience requirements of an in-state student enrolled in a board-approved nursing program.
(4) For purposes of this subdivision, “out-of-state private postsecondary educational institution” has the same meaning as defined in