AACN's Latest Advocacy, Coalition, and Policy Efforts
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 and signed onto a letter to Congress, along with 166 other national and state-level organizations across different health professions, including members of the Nursing Community Coalition (NCC), which urged the passage of the Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act (S.1874/H.R.3593) before the end of the 119th Congress.
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.
August 4: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) letter thanking the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs for considering the Improving Access to Workers’ Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act (S.3296), and urged the Committee to advance the bill.
July 21: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition letter thanking the sponsors of the National Nursing Workforce Center Act of 2025 (H.R.4407/S.1482), Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) and Congresswoman Young Kim (R-CA-40), for introducing the bill. This bipartisan legislation would support efforts to grow or establish new nursing workforce centers.
July 13: AACN signed onto written comments submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) by the Nursing Community Coalition. The comments requested the withdrawal of OMB’s proposed rule, Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance.
July 13: AACN signed onto a United for Cures letter to Congressional leadership urging them to push for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to withdraw its proposed rule, Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance.
July 10: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee requesting at least $610 million for the Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Programs, at least $215 million for the National Institute of Nursing Research, and support for nursing as a professional degree in the Fiscal Year 2027 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education appropriations bill.
July 9: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition letter to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee urging them to consider and pass the Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2025 (S.1874) out of Committee.