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DeSantis vetoed a nursing education bill

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FILE: Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during the Family Leadership Summit, July 14, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. DeSantis was in a car accident Tuesday as he traveled to presidential campaign events in Tennessee but wasn’t injured, his campaign says.

Among the bills Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed last week was a nursing education bill.

The measure would have increased state requirements for nursing-education programs. Specifically, it would have made a series of changes related to the Florida Board of Nursing’s approval and oversight of those programs.
 
In rejecting the measure, DeSantis wrote that the bill “institutes bureaucratic overreach" and would hinder Florida's ability to recruit and maintain nursing programs.

But the Florida Nurses Association supported the bill, pointing out that Florida nursing students are falling way behind their peers in other states when it comes to passing their nursing license exams.

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Helen Acevedo, is WLRN's anchor for All Things Considered.
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