AACN's Latest Advocacy, Coalition, and Policy Efforts
November 21: AACN signed onto a letter to the leadership of the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies requesting at least $680.4 million for the BRAIN Initiative and $541 million for the All of Us Research Program in any final FY 2025 spending bill.
November 18: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) letter urging Congress to take action on the NCC’s top legislative priorities before the end of the 118th Congress.
November 18: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) letter reiterating the NCC’s FY 2025 appropriations requests prior to the expiration of the current continuing resolution on December 20th. These requests include at least $310.472 million for Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Programs and at least $197.693 million for the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) in FY 2025, as outlined in the bipartisan Senate Appropriations Committee passed bill.
November 18: AACN sent a letter to Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Dr. Xavier Becerra, urging the inclusion of nurses on the Scientific Management Review Board (SMRB).
November 18: AACN signed onto a Health Professions and Nursing Education Coalition (HPNEC) letter to the leadership of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees urging the highest possible funding levels for the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Title VII Health Professions and Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development programs in any final FY 2025 appropriations bill. The letters requests the Senate Appropriations Committee-approved combined funding level of $892.8 million for these programs.
November 18: AACN signed onto an Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research letter to the leadership of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees requesting at least $48.9 billion for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as well as funding for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), in any final FY 2025 appropriations bill.
November 15: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) letter to the House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committees urging the consideration and advancement of H.R.3428/S.1633, the United States Cadet Nurse Corps Service Recognition Act of 2023. This bill honors the nearly 120,000 nurses who served in the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps during World War II.
November 14: AACN sent a letter to Congress urging them to include AACN’s top appropriations and legislative priorities in any must pass legislation prior to the end of the 118th Congress.
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 (NCC) 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 (NCC) 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 (NCC) letter making the same request.
August 13: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) 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 (NCC) 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).
June 5: AACN signed onto a Friends of the VA Medical Care and Health Research (FOVA) coalition letter to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) which outlined FY 2025 funding recommendations for VA research, facility repairs, and information technology (IT) improvements.
June 3: AACN signed onto a letter to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees urging Congress to provide funding for CDC, NIH, and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to conduct research into firearm morbidity and mortality prevention.
May 31: AACN signed on to a letter urging the House Oversight and Accountability Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic to implement specific proposals to bolster our nation’s public health system and workforce.
May 23: AACN signed onto a letter thanking the leadership of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee for the effort to reauthorize the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act (S.3679/H.R.7153).
May 22: AACN signed onto an American Council on Education letter urging Congress to enact several proposals to address problems created by FAFSA delays.
May 14: 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.
May 14: AACN signed onto letters from American Indian/Alaska Native Health Partners to the House and Senate supporting funding for the Indian Health Professions Account and Indian Health Service.
May 14: AACN signed on to a letter supporting at least $100 million in FY 2025 for the CDC’s Social Determinants of Health program, within the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP).
May 8: AACN sent a letter to the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to express appreciation for the impactful work that the National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice (NACNEP) is doing to address the challenges facing nursing education and the critical issues impacting the pipeline into nursing.
May 6: AACN signed onto a Coalition for Health Funding letter urging an increase in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 allocation for the Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee and to ensure that non-defense discretionary (NDD) funding is not cut in the FY 2025 appropriations process.
May 6: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) letter urging Congress to take action on top appropriations and legislative priorities that impact nursing education, workforce, and research.
May 2 and 3: AACN submitted written testimony for the record to the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (LHHS) 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 (FY) 2025. AACN also signed onto Nursing Community Coalition written testimony for the record to the House and Senate LHHS Subcommittees making the same request.
May 2: AACN signed on to a letter to the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (LHHS) supporting $11.581 billion for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in FY 2025.
April 29: AACN signed onto a Friends of Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant letter urging Congress to include at least $1 billion for this program in any final FY 2025 Labor, Health and Human Services (LHHS) appropriations package.
April 22: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) letter to the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies outlining the funding requests of at 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.
April 22: AACN signed onto an American Council on Education comment letter to the Department of Education requesting an extension to the comment period in order to provide the higher education community with sufficient time to analyze and respond to new financial value transparency (FVT) and gainful employment (GE) reporting requirements.
April 15: AACN signed onto a letter urging Congress to provide $420.85 million to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Environmental Health in the FY 2025.
April 1: AACN signed onto a letter urging Congress to maintain the House and Senate set-asides for midwifery and nurse-midwifery education in any final FY 2025 Labor, Health and Human Services (LHHS) appropriations package.
April 1: AACN signed onto a Friends of HRSA letter urging Congress to provide at least $10.5 billion for discretionary Health Resources and Services Administration programs in any final FY 2025 Labor, Health and Human Services (LHHS) appropriations bill.
March 28: AACN signed onto a Friends of NCHS letter urging Congress to provide $220 million for NCHS in FY 2025, which will strengthen the agency’s ability to provide unbiased, timely health data to policymakers and reinforce the Center’s role as the world’s gold-standard producer of health statistics.
March 26: AACN signed onto a CDC Coalition letter urging Congress to provide at least $11.581 billion for the CDC in FY 2025.
March 13: AACN signed onto an Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research letter to Congress requesting at least $51.303 billion for the NIH’s foundational work in FY 2025, a $3.579 billion increase over the comparable FY 2024 program level.
February 26: AACN signed onto a Friends of AHRQ letter to the leadership of the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies (LHHS) in both the House and Senate. The letter urged Congress to provide at least $500 million in funding for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in their fiscal year (FY) 2025 appropriations package.
February 15: AACN signed onto a letter to Congress in support of the reauthorization of the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act (H.R. 7153/S. 3679).
February 13: AACN signed on a Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) letter thanking Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR-01) for introducing the Nurse Faculty Shortage Reduction Act (S.2815/H.R.7002), would provide much needed grant funding to close the pay gap between faculty and clinical nurses.
February 5: AACN signed onto a letter opposing the House of Representatives’ proposed use of the Prevention and Public Health Fund (Prevention Fund) as an offset for H.R. 485, the Protecting Health Care for All Patients Act of 2023.
January 31: AACN signed onto a Federation of Associations of Schools of the Health Professions (FASHP) letter expressing concerns with H.R.6951, the College Cost Reduction Act (CCRA).
January 29: AACN signed onto a Health Professions and Nursing Education Coalition (HPNEC) letter to the House and Senate Appropriations Committee leadership urging Congress to provide at least $877.8 million in funding for the health professions and nursing workforce development programs under Title VII and Title VIII of the Public Health Service Act.
January 25: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) letter outlining opposition to H.R.3347/S.2070, the Protect Lifesaving Anesthesia Care for Veterans Act of 2023. H.R.3347/S.2070 would unnecessarily, and unjustifiably, restrict access for our CRNAs within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), adversely impacting the health care of our nation’s veterans.
January 9: AACN signed onto a letter to Congressional Leadership requesting at least $302.472 million for Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Programs and at least $197.693 million for the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) in fiscal year (FY) 2024, as outlined in the Senate Appropriations Committee passed bill. The letter urged Congress to avoid a long-term continuing resolution (CR) and fully fund these critical programs.
January 8: AACN signed onto a letter urging Congress to maintain the House and Senate set-asides for midwifery and nurse-midwifery education in any final FY 2024 Labor, Health and Human Services (LHHS) appropriations package.
January 7: AACN signed onto a letter urging Congress to provide full funding for non-discretionary defense programs in FY2024.
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