The Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians took a series of formal actions during its May 16, 2025 meeting, approving minutes, program admissions and a set of legislative or calendar changes. The items below summarize motions, outcomes and recorded votes.

Votes at a glance

- Approval of minutes (02/07/2025): Motion to approve carried (7–0). Roll call recorded seven yes votes.

- Education/executive officer decisions (01/15/2025–04/01/2025): Motion to ratify NEC/executive officer program decisions carried (7–0).

- Program approvals to admit students (NEC recommendations accepted): The board approved admission requests for multiple vocational nursing programs, each by a voice/roll-call vote recorded as carried by 7 yes votes: Platt College — Alhambra (full-time class of 16 to start Sept. 25), Medical Career College (full-time class of 20 to start June 2), Summit College — San Bernardino (multiple classes approved), Glendale Career College (admit 45 full-time day students), Northwest College Pomona (admit 45), Northwest College West Covina (admit 45). The board accepted NEC recommendations and required follow-up reporting where specified.

- California Health Care Skills Center — provisional approval and admission: The board placed the program on provisional approval for two years (effective 05/16/2025), approved a full-time class of 15 students commencing 06/02/2025, and required monthly and six-month reporting and other conditions. Motion carried (7–0).

- Quest Nursing Education Center: The board considered a complex continuing-approval package and a request to admit multiple cohorts. After presentations by the program's counsel and program director and questions from board members, the recorded roll call initially showed abstentions. Legal counsel later advised the board that, under governing civil-code rules, the motion passed based on the majority of the votes cast. Counsel recorded the final tally as 3 yes, 0 no, 3 abstain, and declared the motion passed. (See provenance for full exchange.)

- Calendar change — November 2025 meeting date: The board approved moving the November 2025 meeting from Nov. 20–21 (Thu–Fri) to Nov. 17–18 (Mon–Tue). Motion carried by roll call (6–0).

- Legislative/regulatory positions taken by the board (roll-call outcomes):
- Oppose AB 1082 (out-of-state distance education nursing clinical placements): Board adopted an opposition position; motion carried by roll call (6–0).
- Support SB 389 (pupil health care services, clarifies LVN role in schools): Board adopted a support position; motion carried by roll call (6–0).
- Support SB 470 (open meeting rules extension to 2030): Board adopted support; motion carried by roll call (6–0).

- Legislative proposal to amend Business & Professions Code sections for retired licenses: The board approved proposed language and asked staff to seek legislative inclusion (motion carried by roll call, 6–0).

Why it matters: The board's approvals allow multiple vocational nursing programs to admit new cohorts and set conditions on programs on provisional status. Legislative positions and rulemaking monitoring indicate the board's engagement in interagency scope-of-practice and open-meeting issues affecting licensees, education programs and school health services.

Where to find details: NEC reports, staff budgets and the full meeting recording are posted in the board packet online; several items include follow-up reporting requirements noted in NEC recommendations.