HB2548
Practical nursing programs, certain; transferability to registered nursing programs, etc.
Status:
Enacted
Latest Action:
March 24, 2025
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0462)
Chief Patron:
Sam Rasoul (D)
Session:
2025 Regular Session
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 no later than July 1, 2026, that ... (More) shall be implemented at each comprehensive 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 (a) 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 (b) permits any baccalaureate public institution of higher education that offers a nursing program or 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 requires the System, the Council, and each baccalaureate public institution of higher education that offers a nursing program 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. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/10/2025 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104272D
- 01/10/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/22/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2548)
- 01/23/2025 - House: Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee
- 01/23/2025 - House: Placed on Education Agenda
- 01/27/2025 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/28/2025 - House: Placed on Education Agenda
- 01/29/2025 - House: Reported from Education with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/2025 - House: Read first time
- 02/03/2025 - House: Read second time
- 02/03/2025 - House: Education Amendments agreed to
- 02/03/2025 - House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 02/03/2025 - House: Printed as engrossed 25104272D-E
- 02/04/2025 - House: Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/2025 - House: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 02/04/2025 - House: Passed House (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/07/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2548)
- 02/10/2025 - Senate: Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 25107033D-S1
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 25107598D-S2
- 02/17/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2548)
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Education and Health Substitute rejected
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Finance and Appropriations Substitute rejected
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Floor substitute printed 25107726D-S3 (Favola)
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Senator Favola, Barbara A. Substitute agreed to
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2548)
- 02/19/2025 - House: Senate substitute agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N)
- 03/07/2025 - House: Enrolled
- 03/07/2025 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2548ER)
- 03/07/2025 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/10/2025 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/10/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2548)
- 03/11/2025 - House: 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 462 (Effective 07/01/26)
- 03/24/2025 - Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0462)
