The state Department of Education will develop a rule to implement part of a legislative package known as “Live Healthy,” which includes expanding the healthcare workforce.
The Live Healthy bills (SB 7016) were a priority of Senate President Kathleen Passidomo, R-Naples, and Gov. Ron DeSantis signed them last month.
On Wednesday, the Department of Education posted a notice of a rulemaking workshop on April 24.
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The potential rule would, in part, broaden the number of private colleges and universities eligible to receive money through the state’s Linking Industry to Nursing Education, or LINE, Fund, which was created in 2022 to help combat a nursing shortage.
The potential rule would aim to make schools licensed by the state’s Commission for Independent Education eligible to receive the money.
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