2025 SESSION

INTRODUCED

25103137D

HOUSE BILL NO. 1860

Offered January 13, 2025

Prefiled January 6, 2025

A BILL to direct the Board of Nursing to amend its regulations to allow faculty supervising direct client care by nursing students to supervise up to 15 students per faculty member.

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Patrons—Price, Jones and Willett

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Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. That the Board of Nursing shall amend 18VAC90-27-110 of the Virginia Administrative Code to increase the ratio of faculty to students engaged in direct client care from 10 students per faculty member up to, but not to exceed, 15 students per faculty member. Amendments pursuant to this act shall be exempt from the provisions of the Administrative Process Act (§ 2.2-4000 et seq. of the Code of Virginia), except that the Board of Nursing shall provide an opportunity for public comment on the regulations prior to adoption.