Nursing education.

WORKING DRAFT
2006
STATE OF
WYOMING
06LSO-0360

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0136

Nursing education.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Hastert, Barnard, Harvey, Iekel, Jackson and Morgan and Senator(s) Barrasso and Massie

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to nursing education programs; providing a salary supplement for nurse educators in the community colleges, as specified; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.

W.S. 21
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202(c) by creating a new paragraph (viii) is amended to read:

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202.

Powers and duties of the commission.

(c)

The commission shall perform the following administrative functions:

(viii)

Subject to appropriation by the legislature, the Wyoming community college commission shall provide sufficient funds to each community college to supplement the salary of a faculty member who is teaching full

time in the nursing education program by twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) and the salary of a faculty member who is teaching part

time in the nursing education program by a pro rata amount. The salary increase provided by this subsection shall be available only to faculty members who hold a master's degree in nursing and shall be in addition to the salary level provided in the salary schedule for the college. Any appropriation made for purposes of this paragraph shall, in accordance with W.S. 21
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205(e), be accounted for and distributed separately from the funding allocation model for community colleges.

Section 2.

There is appropriated from the general fund to the
Wyoming
community college commission for the fiscal biennium commencing July 1, 2006, two million two hundred thousand dollars ($2,200,000.00) for the purposes of this act.

Section 3.

The salary increases provided by this act shall be subject to constitutional and statutory provisions concerning when salaries can become effective.

Section 4.

This act is effective July 1, 2006.

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