Policy & Advocacy

March 6: AACN sent a letter to the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies outlining key academic nursing funding priorities for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024.

January 10: AACN sent a letter to the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives welcoming them to the 118th Congress and outlining our shared academic nursing priorities.

January 30: AACN submitted comments to the Department of Education supporting the proposed rule Improving Income-Driven Repayment for the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program.

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March 9: AACN signed onto a Friends of NCHS letter requesting $215 million for NCHS in Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, which will help strengthen the agency’s ability to provide unbiased health data to policymakers and reinforce NCHS’s role as the world’s gold standard producer of health statistics.

March 6: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition letter to the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies outlining the funding requests of $530 million for Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Programs and $210 million for the National Institute of Nursing Research for FY 2024.

February 10: AACN signed onto an ACE comment letter, on the proposed changes to the REPAYE income-driven repayment (IDR) plan under Title IV of the Higher Education Act (HEA) offered by the Department of Education (Department)

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