The BON in Tennessee may be "sunsetted"

I went to a Tennessee Nurse Association meeting tonight (one of my requirements for my leadership class.) According to them, if it hadn't been for the TNA the BON would be no more, because this company had lobbied to get rid of the BON.

Naturally, we wanted to know the dirt. The district president said that there was this school out of Virginia that wanted to set up one of its nursing diploma programs in Tennessee (even though their NCLEX pass rate was 75%). The BON refused to allow them to set up in the state because they felt the program did not meet the minimum standards. Anyway, this company that owns the school set out to get rid of the BON so it could set up its school here. Someone asked who would be over our licenses then and the president said nursing would be put under the physicians rule. This made a lot of people start flopping around in the floor but the president assured us that the TNA took care of it and this was a good reason to join (at $240 a year.)

I'm a bit skeptical. She couldn't tell us the name of the school and wouldn't tell us the name of the company, but does anyone know anything about this?