(a) The Texas hospital-based nursing education partnership grant program is established.
(b) The board shall administer the program in accordance with this subchapter and rules adopted under this subchapter.
(c) Under the program, to the extent funds are available under Section 61.9755, the board shall make grants to hospital-based nursing education partnerships to assist those partnerships to meet the state's needs for registered nurses by increasing the number of nursing education program graduates through innovative instruction, through collaboration between hospitals and nursing education programs, and the use of the existing expertise and facilities of those hospitals and programs.