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SENATE 1482119th CongressCommittee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held.

National Nursing Workforce Center Act of 2025

Last Action
3/19/2026

Actions

  • 2026-03-19Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held.
  • 2025-04-10Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
  • 2025-04-10Introduced in Senate

CRS Summary

As of 2025-04-10 (00)

National Nursing Workforce Center Act of 2025

This bill temporarily authorizes grants to state agencies, state boards of nursing, nursing schools, or other eligible entities for establishing or expanding state-based nursing workforce centers that carry out research, planning, and programs to address nursing shortages, nursing education, and other matters affecting the nursing workforce.

Also, the bill expands the authority of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to establish health workforce research centers and specifically authorizes HRSA to establish centers focused on nursing.

Cosponsors (4)

  • Thomas Tillis (R-NC)
  • Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
  • Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
  • Christopher Coons (D-DE)

Subjects

  • Congressional oversight
  • Data collection, sharing, protection
  • Employee hiring
  • Higher education
  • Intergovernmental relations
  • Labor market
  • Medical education
  • Nursing
  • Performance measurement
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