Train More Nurses Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5052 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5052

To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary 
  of Labor to conduct a study and issue a report on grant programs to 
                     support the nursing workforce.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 26, 2025

   Mr. Nunn of Iowa (for himself, Ms. Lee of Nevada, and Ms. Titus) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and 
 Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
 in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary 
  of Labor to conduct a study and issue a report on grant programs to 
                     support the nursing workforce.

    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 ``Train More Nurses Act''.

SEC. 2. REVIEW OF AND REPORT ON PROGRAMS SUPPORTING THE NURSING 
              WORKFORCE.

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of 
Labor, jointly, shall--
            (1) conduct a review of all grant programs carried out by 
        the Department of Health and Human Services or the Department 
        of Labor that support the nurse workforce; and
            (2) not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of 
        this Act, submit to Congress a report on the review under 
        paragraph (1) that includes recommendations for changes to such 
        grant programs to improve upon the goals of--
                    (A) increasing nurse faculty, particularly in 
                underserved areas;
                    (B) providing pathways for nurses who have more 
                than 10 years of clinical experience to become faculty 
                at schools of nursing; and
                    (C) encouraging and increasing the nursing pipeline 
                through pathways for licensed practical nurses to 
                become registered nurses.
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