SB953
Practical nursing programs, certain; transferability to registered nursing programs, etc.
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. 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 ... (More) 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 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 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 (a) 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; (b) directs the System to develop and implement the common curriculum for practical nursing programs by July 1, 2026; and (c) directs the System to submit a progress report to the chairs of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Education by December 1, 2025. The provisions of the bill relating to the development of the common curriculum for practical nursing programs have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. The bill incorporates SB 791. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/06/2025 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104229D
- 01/06/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/20/2025 - Senate: Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
- 01/23/2025 - Senate: Incorporates SB791(Head)
- 01/23/2025 - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/23/2025 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 01/23/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 25105795D-S1
- 01/27/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB953)
- 01/29/2025 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 01/30/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 01/30/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Read second time
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Education and Health Substitute agreed to
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Finance and Appropriations Amendment agreed to
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute as amended
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Printed as engrossed 25105795D-ES1
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/2025 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/06/2025 - House: Read first time
- 02/06/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 02/07/2025 - House: Assigned Educ sub: Higher Education
- 02/07/2025 - House: Placed on Education Agenda
- 02/07/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB953)
- 02/10/2025 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/2025 - House: Placed on Education Agenda
- 02/12/2025 - House: Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/2025 - House: Read second time
- 02/17/2025 - House: Passed by for the day
- 02/18/2025 - House: Floor substitute printed 25107727D-H1 (Rasoul)
- 02/18/2025 - House: Moved from Uncontested Calendar to Regular Calendar
- 02/18/2025 - House: Read third time
- 02/18/2025 - House: Delegate Rasoul Substitute agreed to
- 02/18/2025 - House: Engrossed by House - floor substitute
- 02/18/2025 - House: Passed House with substitute (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB953)
- 02/19/2025 - Senate: House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/07/2025 - Senate: Enrolled
- 03/07/2025 - Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB953ER)
- 03/07/2025 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/10/2025 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/10/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB953)
- 03/11/2025 - Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025
- 03/11/2025 - Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
- 03/24/2025 - Approved by Governor-Chapter 465 (Effective 07/01/26)
- 03/24/2025 - Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0465)
