California Code of Regulations › Title 16 - Professional and Vocational Regulations › Division 25 - Board of Vocational Nurse and Psychiatric Technician Examiners of the State of California › Chapter 1 - Vocational Nurses › Article 6 - Revenue › Section 2537.2 - Prelicensure Education Provider Fees

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
Pursuant to section
					 2881.2 of the Code, the following
					 fees are established:
(a) The initial
				  application fee for any applicant for approval of a new school or program of
				  vocational nursing is five thousand dollars ($5,000).
(b) The final approval fee for any applicant
				  for approval of a new school or program of vocational nursing is fifteen
				  thousand dollars ($15,000), unless the institution is entitled to a decrease in
				  fees as provided in subsections (c) or (d), in which case the final approval
				  fee shall be calculated as provided in those subsections.
(c) The final approval fee for any applicant
				  for approval of a new school or program of vocational nursing providing
				  documentation of the criteria of 2881.2(b)(2)(B) of the Code, is five thousand
				  dollars ($5,000). Documentation shall include a signed and dated copy of the
				  formal collaborative agreement between the applicant institution and an
				  approved school or program that is in good standing, showing the applicant
				  institution agrees to utilize the curriculum and policies of the approved
				  school or program. For the purposes of this section "in good standing" means
				  the approved school or program has a current and active approval with no
				  provisional approval.
(d) In
				  accordance with section
				  2526, the Board shall provide each
				  institution an itemized invoice that shows the initial determination by the
				  Board of the reasonable costs for providing oversight and review of an
				  institution expressed in a total dollar value number. If the total dollar value
				  number for the Board's reasonable costs is less than the amount set forth in
				  subsection (b), then the final approval fee shall be reduced to that total
				  value number and reflected in the invoice provided to the institution pursuant
				  to section
				  2526.
(e) Unless the Board makes an initial
				  determination that the continuing approval fee should be decreased in
				  accordance with subsections (f) or (g) after receiving the application for
				  continuing approval, the fee submitted with any continuing approval application
				  required by section
				  2526 shall be five thousand
				  dollars ($5,000).
(f) The
				  continuing approval fee for any approved school or program of vocational
				  nursing which provides documentation with the continuing approval application
				  in subsection (j) of section
				  2526 for reduction in enrollment
				  capacity resulting in reduced state funding is two thousand five hundred
				  dollars ($2,500).
(1) Documentation required
				  for proof of reduction in enrollment capacity must be provided with the
				  continuing approval application in section
				  2526 and include a copy of the
				  school or program's class rosters for the current semester or term, and the
				  previous three consecutive semesters or terms, which demonstrate a cumulative
				  decline in enrollment of more than 10 percent.
(2) Failure to provide the required
				  documentation of reduction in enrollment capacity shall result in the
				  continuing approval fee of five thousand dollars ($5,000) to be assessed unless
				  the applicant also qualifies for a reduction in accordance with subsection
				  (g).