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Senate committee advances grant-funded pilot to raise community college nursing instructor pay

2252515 · February 4, 2025
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Summary

The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a committee substitute for Senate Bill 25-14 to create a grant-funded pilot that increases pay for nursing instructors at community colleges to help retain faculty and produce more nurses; the measure includes a three-year repealer and is not funded from the state general fund.

Senator Parks told the Senate Appropriations Committee that Senate Bill 25-14 would create a pilot program to raise pay for nursing instructors at community colleges and that the effort would be funded strictly by grant money, not through the state budget. "This is creating a pilot program to retain the nursing instructors…

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