1. Senate Bill 1309 authored by Jack Scott Barbara Whitney, Vocational Education Specialist-Health California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office

2. SB 1309-Legislation Intent Expanding capacity of health career programs at the Secondary level Increasing Nursing education enrollment in community colleges and the California State University Recruiting and retaining faculty Streamlining Clinical placement Enhancing financial aid for nursing students

3. SB 1309-Legislation Intent Providing addition resources to community colleges to reduce attrition Creating a statewide health care workforce database to monitor pipeline supply and demand data for the health care workforce.

4. SB 1309-Legislation Intent Address California Nursing Shortage – Health Science Medial Technology Project Grants to K-12 under the Dept. of Education Establish/Enhance new or existing career pathway programs – Establish Cal Grant N Under Student Aid Commission Supplemental Loans for nursing students

5. SB 1309-Legislation Intent Amend Student Nursing Assumption of Loans Program (SNAPL Program) – Amend to provide retroactive loan assumption for undergraduates pursuing nursing faculty status to include part-time teaching

6. Legislation Intent California Community Colleges Nursing Faculty Recruitment and Retention Program – Alter the ability of community colleges to employ long-term temporary faculty from 2 semesters over 3 years to 4 semesters over 3 years – Includes faculty salary augmentation for new faculty Sunsets June 30, 2014

7. SB 1309-Legislation Intent Establish a California Community College Nursing Enrollment Growth and Retention Program – Grants to address enrollment growth and attrition – 12% attrition or agree to implement comprehensive retention program – Community colleges identify diagnostic instrument to predict nursing success and adopt it statewide with a statewide standard for nursing program success – Strengthen pre-nursing coursework – Report outcomes to Chancellor’s office

8. SB 1309-Legislation Intent Establish Five Regional Nursing resource Centers that develop appropriate stakeholder partnerships and – Develop online Clinical placement systems – Develop online Faculty Registry systems – Provide training and technical assistance to users

9. SB 1309-Legislation Intent Expand baccalaureate Nursing programs by 340 slots Charge the office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) with gathering and compiling pipeline statistics on nursing and reporting annually to legislature California Community Colleges to develop a computerized, online clinical placement and clinical faculty registry