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S. 1482 119th Congress Senate

National Nursing Workforce Center Act of 2025

Official title: A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to support and stabilize the existing nursing workforce, establish programs to increase the number of nurses, and for other purposes.

Introduced: April 10, 2025 Introduced by: Lisa Blunt Rochester Democratic · Delaware See on congress.gov
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Mar 19, 2026
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held.
Apr 10, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Apr 10, 2025
Introduced in Senate
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Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

National Nursing Workforce Center Act of 2025

This bill temporarily authorizes grants to state agencies, state boards of nursing, nursing schools, or other eligible entities for establishing or expanding state-based nursing workforce centers that carry out research, planning, and programs to address nursing shortages, nursing education, and other matters affecting the nursing workforce.

Also, the bill expands the authority of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to establish health workforce research centers and specifically authorizes HRSA to establish centers focused on nursing.

 Hearings & markups 1
 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 4407 Identical bill National Nursing Workforce Center Act of 2025
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 Cosponsors 4
All 4 Democratic 2 Republican 2
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Coons, Christopher A.
Delaware · Apr 21, 2026
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Cramer, Kevin
North Dakota · Apr 10, 2025
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Merkley, Jeff
Oregon · Apr 10, 2025
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Tillis, Thomas
North Carolina · Apr 10, 2025
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1482: National Nursing Workforce Center Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1482/
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