Committee Meetings
 Philip Todd, DCCCD’s purchasing director, appeared on Monday before the Senate Government Organization Committee on HB 447. This bill focuses on contracts by governmental entities and related professional services and on public works performance and payment bonds. We have worked to ensure that provisions of this bill mesh with those in SB 1064, our purchasing bill. [Read HB 447]
Also on Monday, the Senate Subcommittee on Higher Education considered a number of nursing-related bills, including:
- SB 138, which addresses promoting the retention and graduation of students enrolled in professional nursing programs;
- SB 139, which would provide a study about improving the curricula of professional and vocational nursing education programs;
- SB 141, which relates to a feasibility study regarding joint health science courses at public or private colleges and universities;
- SB 201, which would provide tuition exemptions at public colleges and universities for certain professional nursing program preceptors and their children; and
- SB 249, which relates to the use of professional nursing shortage reduction program grants to encourage clinical nursing instruction by part-time faculty at colleges and universities.
Although each of these bills may provide some benefits to nursing programs, they do not include the required funding. You can view details about each of these bills on our Web site.
This week, SB 49, one of the “tax-free” textbook bills, was passed by the Senate. The bill would specify a period of time during which students could buy textbooks tax-free. A number of textbook-related bills have been considered during this session, but this is probably one of the few that will survive. [Read SB 49]
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