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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3333 
To require the National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice 
to examine and report on the growing nursing shortage across the United 
States, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 13, 2025 
Mr. COSTA (for himself and Mrs. KIGGANS of Virginia) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To require the National Advisory Council on Nurse Edu-
cation and Practice to examine and report on the grow-
ing nursing shortage across the United States, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Magnifying Opportuni-
ties to Recruit and Educate Nurses Act’’ or the ‘‘MORE 
Nurses Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. EXAMINATION OF THE GROWING NURSING SHORT-
AGE. 
(a) DUTIES.—The National Advisory Council on 
Nurse Education and Practice established pursuant to sec-
tion 851 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
297t) (in this section referred to as the ‘‘National Advi-
sory Council’’) shall— 
(1) examine, assess, and report on the United 
States nursing workforce capacity, including— 
(A) trends in the overall nursing work-
force; 
(B) the capacity to educate future nurses; 
(C) causes for the existing nursing short-
age; and 
(D) Federal policies to bolster nursing edu-
cation and the nursing workforce; 
(2) build upon existing or ongoing evaluations, 
and avoid unnecessary duplication, by reviewing, as 
appropriate, the findings, conclusions, and rec-
ommendations of other task forces, committees, com-
missions, and other public and private entities with 
respect to the national nursing shortage; 
(3) identify areas of Federal policy that have 
impacted the ability of the United States to respond 
to the growing nursing shortage, including— 
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(A) Federal support of nursing education 
programs; 
(B) Federal support of increasing diversity 
in the nursing workforce; and 
(C) incentives for nurses to work in under-
served areas and communities; and 
(4) identify and recommend a set of possible so-
lutions to the nursing shortage for policymakers, in-
cluding legislative and regulatory recommendations. 
(b) REPORT.— 
(1) SUBMISSION.—Not later than one year after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the National Advi-
sory Council shall— 
(A) complete the activities required by sub-
section (a); and 
(B) submit to the President, the Congress, 
and the Secretary of Health and Human Serv-
ices a report on the National Advisory Council’s 
findings, conclusions, and recommendations to 
bolster nursing education and the nursing work-
force in the United States. 
(2) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The National Advi-
sory Council shall make the report required by para-
graph (1) available to the public online. 
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