AACN's Latest Advocacy, Coalition, and Policy Efforts
October 22: AACN was one of 394 organizations that signed onto an Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research letter to Congressional leadership as well as the leadership of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees urging them to finalize Fiscal Year 2027 appropriations for the National Institutes of Health in a robust, bipartisan manner.
October 15: AACN signed onto an American Council on Education (ACE) letter to the Department of Education expressing concerns with their proposed rule, "Proposed Residence Criteria and Proposed Regulations for Demographic Questions for the Decennial Census of the Population of Americans."
October 2: AACN sent a letter to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, to advance the Educating Future Nurses Act (H.R.10410), the PRECEPT Nurses Act (S.131), and the Nurse Corps Tax Parity Act (S.1548).
September 23: AACN signed onto an American Council on Education (ACE) letter to the Department of Education expressing concerns with their proposed revisions to the Education Department General Administrative Regulations (EDGAR).
September 16: AACN signed onto written comments from the American Council on Education (ACE) in response to the Department of Education’s notice of proposed rulemaking, "Accreditation, Innovation, and Modernization: The Secretary’s Recognition of Accrediting Agencies."
September 15: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) letter to the leadership of the House of Representatives urging passage of the bipartisan States Handling Access to Reciprocity for Employment (SHARE) Act (H.R.2332).
September 14: AACN led a Friends of Nursing letter that included 167 national and state organizations urging Congress to pass the Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act (S.1874/H.R.3593) this year.
September 14: AACN submitted written comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on the Calendar Year (CY) 2027 Physician Fee Schedule.
August 24: AACN signed onto written comments from the American Council on Education (ACE) to the National Science Foundation (NSF). The comments expressed concerns with proposed revisions to NSF’s Guidance on Financial Assistance.