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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 547 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary |
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| 6 | 6 | | of Labor to conduct a study and issue a report on grant programs |
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| 7 | 7 | | to support the nursing workforce. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 9 | 9 | | FEBRUARY12, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Ms. R |
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| 11 | 11 | | OSEN(for herself and Ms. COLLINS) introduced the following bill; which |
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| 12 | 12 | | was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, |
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| 13 | 13 | | Labor, and Pensions |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL |
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| 15 | 15 | | To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services |
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| 16 | 16 | | and the Secretary of Labor to conduct a study and |
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| 17 | 17 | | issue a report on grant programs to support the nursing |
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| 18 | 18 | | workforce. |
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| 19 | 19 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 20 | 20 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 22 | 22 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Train More Nurses 4 |
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| 23 | 23 | | Act’’. 5 |
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| 26 | 26 | | •S 547 IS |
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| 27 | 27 | | SEC. 2. REVIEW OF AND REPORT ON PROGRAMS SUP-1 |
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| 28 | 28 | | PORTING THE NURSING WORKFORCE. 2 |
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| 29 | 29 | | The Secretary of Health and Human Services and the 3 |
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| 30 | 30 | | Secretary of Labor, jointly, shall— 4 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (1) conduct a review of all grant programs car-5 |
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| 32 | 32 | | ried out by the Department of Health and Human 6 |
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| 33 | 33 | | Services or the Department of Labor that support 7 |
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| 34 | 34 | | the nurse workforce; and 8 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (2) not later than 1 year after the date of en-9 |
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| 36 | 36 | | actment of this Act, submit to Congress a report on 10 |
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| 37 | 37 | | the review under paragraph (1) that includes rec-11 |
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| 38 | 38 | | ommendations for changes to such grant programs 12 |
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| 39 | 39 | | to improve upon the goals of— 13 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (A) increasing nurse faculty, particularly 14 |
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| 41 | 41 | | in underserved areas; 15 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (B) providing pathways for nurses who 16 |
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| 43 | 43 | | have more than 10 years of clinical experience 17 |
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| 44 | 44 | | to become faculty at schools of nursing; and 18 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (C) encouraging and increasing the nurs-19 |
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| 46 | 46 | | ing pipeline through pathways for licensed prac-20 |
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| 47 | 47 | | tical nurses to become registered nurses. 21 |
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| 48 | 48 | | Æ |
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