Federal Activity

AACN's Advocacy Efforts

April 3: AACN submitted written testimony to Senate Appropriations Subcommittee outlining key academic nursing funding priorities for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024.

March 20: AACN submited written testimony to the House Appropriations Subcommittee outlining key academic nursing funding priorities for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024.

March 17: AACN submitted our response to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Request for Information on the drivers of health care workforce shortages and potential solutions.

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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AACN's Sign Ons with Coalition Partners

May 25: AACN signed on to an ACE letter to streamline the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’s (SNAP) eligibility requirements to make SNAP benefits more accessible for college students struggling with food insecurity.

May 18: AACN signed onto a Health Professions and Nursing Education Coalition testimony to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee urging them to provide $1.51 billion to support the Title VII Health Professions and Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Programs for Fiscal Year 2024.

May 15: AACN signed on to a Coalition for Health Funding letter urging Congress to reject cuts to non-defense discretionary appropriations.

May 8: AACN signed on to a Nursing Community Coalition letter urging Congress to take action on top appropriations and legislative priorities that impact nursing education, workforce, practice, and research.

May 4: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition letter thanking Congress for their support of the Improving Access to Workers’ Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act (S.131/H.R.618).

April 24: AACN signed on to a letter supporting funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) program.

April 19: AACN signed on to a letter supporting $35 million for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), $25 million for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and $1 million for the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to conduct public health research into firearm morbidity and mortality prevention.

April 14: AACN signed onto a Federation of Associations of Schools of the Health Professions Statement on academic freedom and DEI.

April 13: AACN signed on to a letter supporting funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Social Determinants of Health program, within the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP).

April 13: AACN signed on to a letter supporting funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity.

April 3: AACN signed onto a Health Professions and Nursing Education Coalition letter urging the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees to provide $1.51 billion to support the Title VII Health Professions and Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Programs for Fiscal Year 2024.

April 3: AACN signed onto an APRN Workgroup letter to the Departments of Health & Human Services, Treasury, and Labor, regarding the rulemaking on section 2706(a) of the Public Health Service Act.

March 31: AACN signed on to the Coalition for Health Funding letter supporting a significant increase in the FY 2024 allocation for the Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee to ensure the robust, sustained, and predictable investments that these programs require.

March 31: AACN signed onto the Coalition for Health Funding letter urging increase in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 allocation for the Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee and to ensure that non-defense discretionary (NDD) funding is not cut in the FY 2024 appropriations process.

March 31: AACN signed onto an APRN Workgroup comment letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration in response to their proposed rule: Telemedicine Prescribing of Controlled Substances When the Practitioner and the Patient Have Not Had a Prior In-Person Medical Evaluation (88 Fed.Reg. 12875, March 1, 2023).

March 31: AACN signed onto an APRN Workgroup comment letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration in response to their proposed rule: Expansion of Induction of Buprenorphine via Telemedicine Encounter (88 Fed.Reg. 12890, March 1, 2023).

March 31: AACN signed onto two APRN Workgroup letters urging HHS and CMS to take action to make waivers permanent beyond this Public Health Emergency (PHE).

March 29: AACN signed onto an ACE letter regarding the Department of Education’s Feb. 15 Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), “Requirements and Responsibilities for Third-Party Servicers and Institutions.”

March 27: AACN signed on to a letter supporting funding to increase and support Certified Nurse-Midwives along with other maternal health efforts.

March 24: AACN signed on to a letter supporting funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDCs) Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) program. 

March 23: AACN signed onto Nursing Community Coalition written testimony for the record, to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education requesting at least $530 million for the Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Programs and at least $210 million for the National Institute of Nursing Research for Fiscal Year 2024.

March 23: AACN signed onto a letter urging the House and Senate Appropriations Committees to support the Title V Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Services Block Grant.

March 22: AACN signed onto a CDC Coalition letter in support of at least $11.581 billion for CDC in any final FY 2024.

March 21: AACN signed onto a letter with other health care organizations, urging Congress to pass permanent protections to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients.

March 20: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition letter, to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee in response to their health care workforce request for information. 

March 20: AACN signed onto an APRN Workgroup comment letter, to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee in response to their health care workforce request for information.

March 14: AACN signed onto an Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research letter requesting at least $50.924 billion for NIH’s foundational work, a $3.465 billion increase over the comparable FY 2023 program level.

March 9: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition letter urging Congress to take action to make waivers permanent beyond this Public Health Emergency (PHE). 

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 7: AACN signed onto a FASHP coalition letter, welcoming the 118th Congress.

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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Funding for Nursing Education and Research

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