VETOES

number of hours of active nursing practice within a certain
time period or complete a certain course or program.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,

Article - Health Occupations

Section 7-306 and 7-310(c)(3)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1986 Replacement Volume and 1986 Supplement)

(As enacted by Chapters 240 and 520 of the

Acts of the General Assembly of 1986)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Chapter 520 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1986
Section 2

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Health Occupations

7-306.

(a) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Board
may waive any appropriate examination requirement of this title
for an applicant who is licensed or registered to practice
registered nursing or licensed practical nursing in any other
state or country.

'(b) The Board may grant a waiver under this section only if
the applicant:

(1)  Pays the application fee set by the Board under §
7-303 of this subtitle; and

(2)  Provides adequate evidence that:

(i) At the time the applicant graduated from a
nursing education program approved in the other state or country,
the applicant met the educational qualifications then required by
the laws of this State;

(ii) At the time the applicant became licensed
or registered in the other state or country, the applicant passed
in that or any other state or country an examination that was
similar to the examination that then was given in this State; and

(iii) The applicant meets the qualifications
otherwise required by this title.

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