sentences:  On June 28, 2012, the New Jersey state legislature passed a bill that dissolved the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and merged most of its schools, except the School of Osteopathic Medicine, with Rutgers University forming a new Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences College effective July 1, 2013.As a result, Rutgers acquired a second school that grants nursing degrees.On April 1, 2014, the Rutgers University's governing board approved the merger of the Newark and New Brunswick Nursing programs.