Texas Administrative Code
Title 19 - EDUCATION
Part 1 - TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD
Chapter 10 - GRANT PROGRAMS
Subchapter E - PROFESSIONAL NURSING SHORTAGE REDUCTION PROGRAM
Section 10.116 - Grant Awards

Universal Citation: 19 TX Admin Code ยง 10.116

Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024

(a) The amount of funding available to the program is dependent on the legislative appropriation for the program for each biennial state budget.

(b) The Coordinating Board shall approve awards as authorized in § 1.16 of this title (relating to Contracts, Including Grants, for Materials and/or Services).

(c) Subject to subsection (b) of this section, the Commissioner may negotiate or adjust a grant award to best fulfill the purpose of the RFA and ensure an equitable distribution of grant funds among the types of professional nursing programs in order to increase the number of enrolling and graduating students.

(d) The Coordinating Board may advance a grant award to a grantee.

(e) A grant shall demonstrate through reporting that the grantee is in compliance with the terms of the grant award and is, at a minimum, meeting application benchmark requirements before the Coordinating Board may issue the next periodic grant award installment.

(f) The Coordinating Board shall set forth the determination of the allowability of administrative costs in the RFA.

(g) A grantee may use a grant award only on necessary and reasonable costs exclusively related to:

(1) enrolling additional nursing students;

(2) evidenced-based practices in the recruitment and retention of students;

(3) identifying, developing, or implementing innovative or evidenced-based practices to make effective and efficient use of professional nursing program faculty, instructional or clinical space, or other necessary resources including:
(A) regional shared services, courses, personnel, facilities, and responsibilities among two or more professional nursing programs; or

(B) employing or contracting with preceptors or part-time faculty to provide clinical instruction to accommodate increased student enrollment; and

(4) education, recruitment, or retention of professional nursing program faculty.

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