SECTIONS 78260 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 78260

78260. (a) (1) In order to further the state's interests in a major
expansion in the number of educated nurses in California, the
Legislature finds that it is necessary to ensure a significant
expansion in the number of qualified nursing faculty at California
Community Colleges. Therefore, the Legislature hereby creates the
California Community Colleges Nursing Faculty Recruitment and
Retention Program in the Chancellor's Office of the California
Community Colleges for purposes of facilitating the recruitment and
retention of qualified nursing faculty. The Chancellor of the
California Community Colleges shall allocate funds on a competitive
grant basis to community college districts that commit to sustained
increases in the number of full-time equivalent students taught in
the district's nursing programs, as specified by the chancellor, and
that also commit to the terms and conditions specified in this
section.
(2) It is the intent of the Legislature that the grants awarded
under this article should be one-time grants and that the total
amount of the funding for this article in any fiscal year should be
limited to the amount appropriated for that purpose in the annual
Budget Act. The Legislature finds and declares that the initial
funding for this article is the appropriation contained in paragraph
(30) of subdivision (a) of Section 43 of Chapter 79 of the Statutes
of 2006.
(b) (1) (A) The grant amount to each participating district shall
be based on the number of full-time faculty at the district who are
in their first through fifth year of service as an instructor in a
California Community College registered nursing program in the fiscal
year for which funds are disbursed. Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, a community college district that receives an
allocation for the making of grants under this article shall have up
to five years to disburse these funds.
(B) Except as provided in paragraph (3), the amount granted to any
person under this article shall not exceed a total of twenty
thousand dollars ($20,000) disbursed over a five-year period with a
maximum of six thousand dollars ($6,000) in any one year.
(2) Disbursements under this section shall be based on the
following schedule:
(A) Six thousand dollars ($6,000) for each instructor in his or
her first year.
(B) Five thousand dollars ($5,000) for each instructor in his or
her second year.
(C) Four thousand dollars ($4,000) for each instructor in his or
her third year.
(D) Three thousand dollars ($3,000) for each instructor in his or
her fourth year.
(E) Two thousand dollars ($2,000) for each instructor in his or
her fifth year.
(3) Notwithstanding the amounts listed in paragraph (2), the
amount granted to a person under this article may be supplemented, in
any year of the five-year cycle of disbursements under paragraph
(2), by up to one thousand dollars ($1,000) in local matching funds,
plus an equal amount of funds disbursed pursuant to this program.
(4) A person who receives a grant under this article shall not be
eligible for participation in the State Nursing Assumption Program of
Loans for Education Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 70100) of
Part 42.
(c) Each district is authorized, through its shared governance and
collective bargaining relationships, to allocate actual payments to
faculty in their first through fifth years of service as a nursing
instructor on a different basis if the district finds that its
ability to recruit and retain nursing faculty is thereby enhanced.
(d) Each district may use a portion of the grant proceeds to offer
incentives to either full-time or part-time nursing instructors for
the purpose of instruction in clinical settings during weekends and
evenings. This subdivision shall not construed to be limited to
faculty in their first through fifth years of service as nursing
instructors.
(e) As a condition of receiving grant funds under this article,
each district agrees to provide the chancellor with all data
requested by the chancellor on the expenditure of funds and program
outcomes.
(f) The chancellor shall report annually by March 1 to the
Legislature and the Governor on program expenditures and outcomes by
participating district and college.