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Troops to Nurse Teachers Act of 2008

Introduced: March 5, 2008 Introduced by: Durbin, Richard J. Democratic · Illinois See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
Mar 5, 2008
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Troops to Nurse Teachers Act of 2008 - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to carry out programs under which commissioned officers of the nurse corps: (1) serve as full-time faculty of accredited schools of nursing in exchange for additional service or in exchange for scholarships provided by the school to those accepting commissions in the nurse corps; (2) receive scholarships leading to a graduate degree in nursing in exchange for service as nursing school faculty and to undertake activities to encourage nurses to serve in the Armed Forces nurse corps; (3) receive nursing faculty career placement and continuing education assistance if they are retirement-eligible and have graduate degrees qualifying them as nurse instructors; or (4) receive, while serving after retirement as faculty at a nursing school, retired pay without reduction and a pay differential to ensure that compensation for faculty member service will not be less than the basic pay received before retirement.

Requires: (1) any program established under this Act to last at least two years; and (2) the Secretary to assess each program to determine if it should be continued.

What's happening now March 5, 2008

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 5878 Identical bill Troops to Nurse Teachers Act of 2008
 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 4
All 4 Democratic 3 Republican 1
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Whitehouse, Sheldon
Rhode Island · May 15, 2008
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Klobuchar, Amy
Minnesota · Apr 30, 2008
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Collins, Susan M.
Maine · Mar 5, 2008
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Reed, Jack
Rhode Island · Mar 5, 2008
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