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Committee hears bill to codify, modernize nursing initiative grants; no appropriation change in bill
Summary
The House Higher Education Budget Committee heard testimony on HB 2248 to place the Kansas Nursing Initiative Grant Program into statute, expand eligible uses and remove the institutional match requirement; the bill does not itself add funding and would remain subject to appropriations.
House Bill 2248, which would establish the Kansas Nursing Initiative Grant Program in statute and change how the program can be used, was heard Wednesday by the House Higher Education Budget Committee.
Jill Walters, a staff member who provided the bill brief, said the bill would place the grant program under administration of the State Board of Regents and permit ‘‘need-based or competitive grants for the expansion of nursing faculty, laboratory supplies, and tools for student success.’’ Walters said eligible institutions would include public universities, municipal universities, community colleges, technical colleges and not-for-profit private institutions with a main campus in Kansas.
The nut of the proposal, Walters said, is that grants would not require a local match and institutions could request up to $100,000 for nonconsumable lab supplies and equipment, funding for adjunct clinical instructors (including…
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