19 Tex. Admin. Code § 10.116 - Grant Awards
(a) The amount of
funding available to the program is dependent on the legislative appropriation
for the program for each biennial state budget.
(b) The Coordinating Board shall approve
awards as authorized in §
1.16 of this title (relating to
Contracts, Including Grants, for Materials and/or Services).
(c) Subject to subsection (b) of this
section, the Commissioner may negotiate or adjust a grant award to best fulfill
the purpose of the RFA and ensure an equitable distribution of grant funds
among the types of professional nursing programs in order to increase the
number of enrolling and graduating students.
(d) The Coordinating Board may advance a
grant award to a grantee.
(e) A
grant shall demonstrate through reporting that the grantee is in compliance
with the terms of the grant award and is, at a minimum, meeting application
benchmark requirements before the Coordinating Board may issue the next
periodic grant award installment.
(f) The Coordinating Board shall set forth
the determination of the allowability of administrative costs in the
RFA.
(g) A grantee may use a grant
award only on necessary and reasonable costs exclusively related to:
(1) enrolling additional nursing
students;
(2) evidenced-based
practices in the recruitment and retention of students;
(3) identifying, developing, or implementing
innovative or evidenced-based practices to make effective and efficient use of
professional nursing program faculty, instructional or clinical space, or other
necessary resources including:
(A) regional
shared services, courses, personnel, facilities, and responsibilities among two
or more professional nursing programs; or
(B) employing or contracting with preceptors
or part-time faculty to provide clinical instruction to accommodate increased
student enrollment; and
(4) education, recruitment, or retention of
professional nursing program faculty.
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