MORE Nurses Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3333 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3333

    To require the National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and 
 Practice to examine and report on the growing nursing shortage across 
               the United States, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 13, 2025

  Mr. Costa (for himself and Mrs. Kiggans of Virginia) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require the National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and 
 Practice to examine and report on the growing nursing shortage across 
               the United States, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Magnifying Opportunities to Recruit 
and Educate Nurses Act'' or the ``MORE Nurses Act''.

SEC. 2. EXAMINATION OF THE GROWING NURSING SHORTAGE.

    (a) Duties.--The National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and 
Practice established pursuant to section 851 of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 297t) (in this section referred to as the 
``National Advisory Council'') shall--
            (1) examine, assess, and report on the United States 
        nursing workforce capacity, including--
                    (A) trends in the overall nursing workforce;
                    (B) the capacity to educate future nurses;
                    (C) causes for the existing nursing shortage; and
                    (D) Federal policies to bolster nursing education 
                and the nursing workforce;
            (2) build upon existing or ongoing evaluations, and avoid 
        unnecessary duplication, by reviewing, as appropriate, the 
        findings, conclusions, and recommendations of other task 
        forces, committees, commissions, and other public and private 
        entities with respect to the national nursing shortage;
            (3) identify areas of Federal policy that have impacted the 
        ability of the United States to respond to the growing nursing 
        shortage, including--
                    (A) Federal support of nursing education programs;
                    (B) Federal support of increasing diversity in the 
                nursing workforce; and
                    (C) incentives for nurses to work in underserved 
                areas and communities; and
            (4) identify and recommend a set of possible solutions to 
        the nursing shortage for policymakers, including legislative 
        and regulatory recommendations.
    (b) Report.--
            (1) Submission.--Not later than one year after the date of 
        enactment of this Act, the National Advisory Council shall--
                    (A) complete the activities required by subsection 
                (a); and
                    (B) submit to the President, the Congress, and the 
                Secretary of Health and Human Services a report on the 
                National Advisory Council's findings, conclusions, and 
                recommendations to bolster nursing education and the 
                nursing workforce in the United States.
            (2) Public availability.--The National Advisory Council 
        shall make the report required by paragraph (1) available to 
        the public online.
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