Requires Higher Education Student Assistance Authority to develop pathway to nursing scholarship for health care workers who want to become nurses; appropriates $1 million.

This bill creates the "Pathway to Nursing Scholarship Program" to address New Jersey's nursing shortage. It requires the Higher Education Student Assistance Authority (HESAA) to develop a scholarship program for healthcare workers seeking to become nurses, appropriating $1 million from the General Fund. The program will award 100 scholarships of $10,000 each to eligible applicants who are New Jersey residents, currently or previously worked in healthcare, enrolled in an approved nursing program, and commit to working as nurses after graduation. The scholarships aim to increase the number of trained nurses by incentivizing career transitions within the healthcare sector.