Relating to publication by the Texas Board of Nursing and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board of certain nursing education data.
Summary
SB 2058 requires both the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the Texas Board of Nursing to prominently post, on the home page of their websites, a link to the most recent nursing education reports produced by the Texas Center for Nursing Workforce Studies. The bill does not change the substance of the reports themselves or create new reporting duties; it focuses on making existing nursing education data easier for the public to find.
The measure is aimed at improving access to information about nursing education in Texas, likely to help students, educators, policymakers, and workforce stakeholders quickly locate current data on nursing programs and the nursing pipeline. By directing both agencies to feature the reports on their home pages, the bill standardizes visibility across the two agencies most closely connected to higher education and nursing licensure.
Impact
The bill amends the Education Code and the Occupations Code by adding parallel provisions requiring website publication of links to the latest nursing education reports. Its practical effect is administrative: it imposes a posting requirement on the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the Texas Board of Nursing, while leaving the Texas Center for Nursing Workforce Studies as the source of the underlying reports. The act takes effect December 31, 2025.
Sentiment
The available legislative record suggests little to no controversy. The bill advanced without recorded opposition in the provided vote history, and there are no committee transcript excerpts indicating debate or resistance. Overall, the sentiment appears neutral to favorable, consistent with a transparency- and access-oriented administrative measure.
Contention
No specific points of contention are reflected in the provided materials. Because the bill is limited to website publication of existing nursing education reports, any disagreement would likely have centered on administrative burden, agency coordination, or the value of duplicative posting, but none of those concerns appear in the available record. The absence of recorded nays or transcript discussion suggests the bill was not materially contested.
Identical
Relating to certain duties of the Texas Board of Nursing and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board in relation to the reporting and publication of nursing program clinical site data.