CHAPTER NUMBER: 221
File Code: Higher Education
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 322
- Sponsored By:
-
The President (By Request - Administration) and Senators
Kittleman, Brinkley, Colburn, Dyson, Harris, Hogan, Hooper, Kramer,
Lawlah, Schrader, and Stoltzfus
- Entitled:
-
Higher Education - Nurse Support Program Assistance Fund
- Hospital Rates
Establishing the Nurse Support Program Assistance Fund in the Maryland
Higher Education Commission; establishing a funding source for the
Fund; providing for expenditures from the Fund; requiring money in the
Fund to be used for competitive and statewide grants to increase the
number of bedside nurses in Maryland hospitals, in accordance with
specified guidelines; and requiring that guidelines provide that a
portion of the grants be used to attract and retain minorities to
nursing and nurse faculty careers in the State.
Senate Action
- 1/23
- First Reading Budget and Taxation
- Motion Rules Suspended Referred (Senator Green) Adopted
- Referred Budget and Taxation
- 1/27
- Re-assigned Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 2/8
- Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/14
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 3/15
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/17
- Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- 4/6
- Senate Concur - House Amendments
- Third Reading Passed (39-0)
- Passed Enrolled
House Action
- 3/17
- First Reading Appropriations & Health and Government Operations
- 3/29
- Hearing 4/5 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/7
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations
- 4/3
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/4
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (135-0)
Action after passage in Senate and House
- 5/2
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 221
Sponsored by:
- President of the Senate
- Administration
- Senator David R. Brinkley, District 4
- Senator Richard F. Colburn, District 37
- Senator Roy P. Dyson, District 29
- Senator Andrew P. Harris, District 7
- Senator Patrick J. Hogan, District 39
- Senator J. Robert Hooper, District 35
- Senator Allan H. Kittleman, District 9
- Senator Rona E. Kramer, District 14
- Senator Gloria Lawlah, District 26
- Senator Sandra B. Schrader, District 13
- Senator J. Lowell Stoltzfus, District 38
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- GRANTS
- HEALTH OCCUPATIONS -see also- specific health occupations
- HIGHER EDUCATION -see also- COMM COLLEGES; MED SCHOOLS; etc.
- HIGHER EDUCATION COMMISSION
- HOSPITALS -see also- CLINICS; STATE HOSPITALS
- MINORITIES -see also- WOMEN
- NURSES
- REVENUE AND TAXES -see also- DEV FEES & TAXES; specific tax.
Bill affects the following Statute:
- Education
- (
11-404
)
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
Available
- Amendments (Displayed in WordPerfect 8 Format):
Senate
- Number: 454939/01 (PDF) Offered on: March 15, 2006 at:
11:54 a.m. Status: Adopted
House
- Number: 424462/01 (PDF) Offered on: April 7, 2006 at:
11:28 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
Senate
- March 17, 2006: Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- April 6, 2006: Third Reading Passed (39-0)
House
- April 4, 2006: Third Reading Passed (135-0)
