Summary#
The Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2025 would amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize and update federal nursing workforce programs. The bill was introduced on May 23, 2025, and a House subcommittee forwarded it to the full committee by voice vote.
Key changes in the bill text include:
- Advanced Nursing Education Grants: expands who is eligible to include individuals enrolled in nurse practitioner, nurse-midwifery, nurse anesthesia, and clinical nurse specialist programs; updates wording to use "nurse-midwives"; and allows grant funds to cover fees, including costs for clinical education and preceptors.
- Strengthening Capacity for Nurse Education and Practice (Part D, section 831): removes the word "basic" from the part heading; adds allowable uses such as audiovisual and other equipment, simulation and augmented reality resources, telehealth technologies, and virtual and physical laboratories; adds increasing the number of nursing faculty and students as an allowable activity; expands covered populations to include survivors of sexual assault; and allows partnerships with health care facilities, nurse-managed clinics, and community health centers to establish or expand clinical education.
- Authorization of appropriations: updates the authorized annual funding levels for certain Title VIII programs for fiscal years 2026 through 2030 (see Expenses).
What it means for you#
- Nursing students and trainees: The bill would make more types of advanced nursing programs explicitly eligible for grant support and allow grant funds to help pay for clinical education and preceptor costs.
- Nursing schools and educators: The bill would allow grants to be used for simulation, augmented reality, telehealth, virtual and physical labs, and other equipment, and would support efforts to increase faculty and student numbers.
- Health care and community clinics: The bill would support partnerships between training programs and clinical sites to create or expand clinical education opportunities.
- General public: No publicly available information on direct effects beyond the program changes and funding authorizations described in the bill text.
Expenses#
The bill text changes the authorized appropriations in section 871 as follows:
- Subsection (a): replaces "$137,837,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2025" with "$184,337,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030."
- Subsection (b): replaces "$117,135,000 for each of the fiscal years 2021 through 2025" with "$121,135,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030."
No publicly available information on the bill’s total projected budgetary cost, offsets, or effects on the federal deficit beyond these authorized amounts.
Proponents' View#
No publicly available information.
Opponents' View#
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