Student financial aid: State Nursing Assumption Program of Loans for Education: school nurses.

Existing law establishes within the State Nursing Assumption Program of Loans for Education (SNAPLE) , a program under which any person who is enrolled in an eligible institution, and who agrees to work full time as a registered nurse in a state-operated 24-hour facility, including a prison, psychiatric hospital, or veterans home, that employs registered nurses, is eligible to receive a conditional loan assumption agreement, to be redeemed upon becoming employed as a clinical registered nurse in an eligible facility. This bill would establish a program within the SNAPLE, under which a student who is enrolled in an eligible program, and who agrees to be employed as a school nurse in an eligible school or school district, would be eligible to receive a conditional loan assumption agreement, to be redeemed upon becoming employed as a school nurse in an eligible public elementary or secondary school. The bill would provide for a progressive assumption of the amount of a qualifying loan over 4 consecutive years of qualifying employment as a school nurse, up to a total loan assumption of $11,000. The program would be repealed on January 1, 2016.