CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES C H A N C E L L O R ’ S O F F I C E

Senate Bill 1309authored by Jack Scott

Barbara Whitney, VocationalEducation Specialist-HealthCalifornia Community CollegesChancellor's Office

CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES C H A N C E L L O R ’ S O F F I C E

SB 1309-Legislation Intent

Expanding capacity of health career programs at the Secondary level

Increasing Nursing education enrollment in community colleges and the California State University

Recruiting and retaining faculty Streamlining Clinical placement Enhancing financial aid for nursing

students

CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES C H A N C E L L O R ’ S O F F I C E

SB 1309-Legislation Intent

Providing addition resources to community colleges to reduce attrition

Creating a statewide health care workforce database to monitor pipeline supply and demand data for the health care workforce.

CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES C H A N C E L L O R ’ S O F F I C E

SB 1309-Legislation Intent

Address California Nursing Shortage– Health Science Medial Technology Project

Grants to K-12 under the Dept. of Education Establish/Enhance new or existing career pathway

programs

– Establish Cal Grant N Under Student Aid Commission Supplemental Loans for nursing students

CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES C H A N C E L L O R ’ S O F F I C E

SB 1309-Legislation Intent

Amend Student Nursing Assumption of Loans Program (SNAPL Program)– Amend to provide retroactive loan assumption

for undergraduates pursuing nursing faculty status to include part-time teaching

CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES C H A N C E L L O R ’ S O F F I C E

Legislation Intent

California Community Colleges Nursing Faculty Recruitment and Retention Program– Alter the ability of community colleges to

employ long-term temporary faculty from 2 semesters over 3 years to 4 semesters over 3 years

– Includes faculty salary augmentation for new faculty

Sunsets June 30, 2014

CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES C H A N C E L L O R ’ S O F F I C E

SB 1309-Legislation Intent

Establish a California Community College Nursing Enrollment Growth and Retention Program– Grants to address enrollment growth and attrition– 12% attrition or agree to implement comprehensive

retention program– Community colleges identify diagnostic instrument to

predict nursing success and adopt it statewide with a statewide standard for nursing program success

– Strengthen pre-nursing coursework– Report outcomes to Chancellor’s office

CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES C H A N C E L L O R ’ S O F F I C E

SB 1309-Legislation Intent

Establish Five Regional Nursing resource Centers that develop appropriate stakeholder partnerships and – Develop online Clinical placement systems– Develop online Faculty Registry systems– Provide training and technical assistance to

users

CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES C H A N C E L L O R ’ S O F F I C E

SB 1309-Legislation Intent

Expand baccalaureate Nursing programs by 340 slots

Charge the office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) with gathering and compiling pipeline statistics on nursing and reporting annually to legislature

California Community Colleges to develop a computerized, online clinical placement and clinical faculty registry