By Sydney Verga
On June 27, 2025, the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) approved amendments to section 1484 of Title 16 of the California Code of Regulations (CCR). Section 1484 establishes criteria that the Board of Registered Nursing (BRN) uses to approve Nurse Practitioner (NP) education programs. BRN’s rulemaking action does two things. First, the rulemaking replaces a previously incorporated document produced by the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF), “Nurse Practitioner Core Competencies Content” (2017), with the newest version from 2022. Second, it modifies licensing requirements for clinical preceptors and students in the nurse practitioner program for clinical preceptorships that take place outside of California.
Sections 1484(a) and 1484(h)(7) incorporate by reference NONPF’s 2017 version of the “Nurse Practitioner Core Competencies Content.” SB 887 (Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development) (Chapter 510, Statutes of 2024) amended section 2836 of the Business and Professions Code to reference the 2022 version of the “Nurse Practitioner Core Competencies” as opposed to the 2017 version. Accordingly, a conforming regulatory change was needed for CCR section 1484(a) and 1484(h)(7) because these existing regulations incorporate by reference NONPF’s 2017 version of “Nurse Practitioner Core Competencies Content.” The approved amendments do just that.
Additionally, this rulemaking action modifies licensing requirements for clinical preceptors and NP students completing preceptorships outside of California. Previously, sections 1084(f) and 1084(g) required both the clinical preceptor and NP student to have an active California RN license. In the Initial Statement of Reasons, BRN asserts that such requirements are overly burdensome and unnecessary from a public protection standpoint. These amendments eliminate the requirement that a clinical preceptor or NP student hold an active RN license in California when the clinical preceptorship occurs outside California.
The approved amendments took effect on October 1, 2025.