AACN's Latest Advocacy, Coalition, and Policy Efforts
September 27: AACN signed onto a CDC Coalition letter urging the House of Representatives to reject the $1.8 billion proposed cut to the CDC’s budget outlined in the House FY 2025 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (LHHS-ED) spending bill.
September 24: AACN signed onto a letter to the House and Senate Appropriations Committee leadership urging them to support at least $1 billion for the Title V Maternal and Child Health Service Block Grant in any final FY 2025 appropriations bill.
September 20: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition letter to the House of Representatives urging them to consider and pass H.R.618, the Improving Access to Workers’ Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act. This bill would retire outdated barriers in the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act (FECA) that limit the ability of nurse practitioners (NPs) to diagnose and oversee the care and treatment of federal employees who are injured or become ill in the course of their employment.
September 18: AACN signed onto a letter to Congressional Leadership urging Congress to reauthorize the Community Health Center Fund at $5.8 billion per year for at least 3 years.
September 16: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition letter to Congress outlining updated FY 2025 appropriations requests for the Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Programs and the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR). These include at least $310.472 million for Title VIII programs and at least $197.693 million for NINR, as outlined in the spending bill passed by the Senate Appropriations Committee.
September 9: AACN submitted comments to the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services on CY 2025 Physician Fee Schedule.
September 5: AACN signed onto a letter thanking Representatives David Schweikert (R-AZ-01) and Gwen Moore (D-WI-04) for their bipartisan work on including Sections 12 and 13 within H.R.8318, the Tribal Tax and Investment Reform Act of 2024.
September 3: AACN signed onto Research!America letter thanking Senate appropriators for providing a nearly $2 billion increase for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (LHHS) Appropriations bill.
August 27: AACN signed on to an APRN Workgroup letter to the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services, regarding the CY 2025 Physician Fee Schedule.
August 23: AACN signed onto an American Council on Education letter to the Secretary of the Department of Education (DOE), Miguel Cardona, in response to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding program integrity and institutional quality in the areas of distance education, return of Title IV funds, and the Federal TRIO programs. The letter spelled out concerns with proposed DOE actions in each of these areas.
August 15: AACN sent a letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, in response proposed reforms to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The letter urged the Committee to prioritize funding for the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), and to maintain NINR as an independent Institute within NIH. AACN also signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition letter making the same request.
August 13: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition comment letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) emphasizing the importance of nursing representation on federal advisory committees, taskforces, and councils.
August 2: AACN submitted comments in response to a Congressional request for information (RFI) on how Congress can better support research into cures and treatments for diseases.
July 29: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition letter reiterating support for AACN’s top appropriations priorities, including least $530 million for Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Programs and at least $210 million for the National Institute of Nursing Research for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025.
June 25: AACN signed onto a letter urging Congress to provide full funding for non-discretionary defense programs in FY2025.
June 24: AACN signed onto a letter supporting funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) All of Us Research Program for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025.
June 7: AACN signed on to an American Council on Education letter to Congress opposing the addition of the Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act and the Defending Education Transparency and Ending Rogue Regimes Engaging in Nefarious Transactions (DETERRENT) Act as amendments to the Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 (H.R.8070).