Clinics and health facilities: nurses.

Existing law provides for the regulation and licensure of clinics, as defined, and health facilities, as defined, by the State Department of Public Health. A violation of these provisions is a crime. This bill would prohibit clinics and health facilities that receive public funds from excluding students enrolled in a public community college associate degree prelicensure nursing program from clinical placement slots if the program has been approved by the Board of Registered Nursing, as specified. The bill would also prohibit clinics and health facilities from discriminating against a person because he or she has completed an associate degree nursing program instead of a baccalaureate degree nursing program. The bill would specify that a violation of these provisions is not a crime.