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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 724 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants to increase 
the number of qualified nursing faculty, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 27, 2009 
Mr. PASTOR of Arizona introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants 
to increase the number of qualified nursing faculty, 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 ‘‘America’s Partnership 
for Nursing Education Act of 2009’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSE. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds as follows: 
(1) The nursing shortage has a detrimental im-
pact on the quality of care patients receive in health 
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care settings and plays a role in driving up health 
care costs. 
(2) States that have developed strategies involv-
ing partnerships with educational institutions and 
have allocated funds toward implementing their 
strategies are well suited to make effective use of 
matching Federal funds to better address and re-
duce this nursing shortage 
(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this Act is to support 
State and private efforts to address lack of capacity in 
college and university nursing programs, the critical driv-
ing force behind the serious nursing shortage in many 
States with fast growing populations. 
SEC. 3. GRANTS TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF QUALIFIED 
NURSING FACULTY. 
Part D of title VIII of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 296p) is amended by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘SEC. 832. GRANTS TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF QUALI-
FIED NURSING FACULTY. 
‘‘(a) GRANTS.—The Secretary of Health and Human 
Services shall make grants to qualified States (or agencies 
or other governmental units thereof) to increase the num-
ber of qualified nursing faculty in college and university 
nursing programs in the State. 
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‘‘(b) USE OF FUNDS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—As a condition on the re-
ceipt of a grant under this section, a qualifying 
State shall agree to implement or continue imple-
menting a program for the purpose of increasing the 
number of qualified nursing faculty in college and 
university nursing programs in the State. Such pro-
gram— 
‘‘(A) shall be implemented in cooperation 
with one or more colleges or universities in the 
State; and 
‘‘(B) shall include payment of nursing fac-
ulty salaries, benefits, training costs, oper-
ational costs, and any other costs related to 
such purpose. 
‘‘(2) RESTRICTIONS.—As a condition on the re-
ceipt of a grant under this section, a qualifying 
State shall agree— 
‘‘(A) to use the grant only to pay costs de-
scribed in paragraph (1)(B) that are associated 
with the number of qualified nursing faculty in 
college and university nursing programs in the 
State that is in addition to such number in aca-
demic year 2008–2009; and 
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‘‘(B) to refrain from using any funds made 
available through the grant for capital expenses. 
‘‘(c) AMOUNT OF GRANT.— 
‘‘(1) FEDERAL FUNDS.—Subject to the avail-
ability of appropriations, the minimum amount of a 
grant to a qualifying State under this section for a 
fiscal year shall be $2,000,000. 
‘‘(2) STATE FUNDS.—As a condition on the re-
ceipt of a grant under this section, a qualifying 
State shall agree— 
‘‘(A) to use the grant to supplement and 
not supplant the amount of funds made avail-
able by the State for academic year 2008–2009 
for maintaining the number of qualified nursing 
faculty in college and university nursing pro-
grams in the State; and 
‘‘(B) in addition to such funds, to make 
available not less than $2,000,000 for each of 
fiscal years 2010 through 2014 for the purpose 
of increasing the number of qualified nursing 
faculty in college and university nursing pro-
grams in the State. 
‘‘(d) COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES.—The Secretary 
shall allow a qualifying State receiving a grant under this 
section to determine which college and university nursing 
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programs in the State are eligible for funding through 
such grant. 
‘‘(e) REPORTS TO CONGRESS.—Not later than the 
end of each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014, the Sec-
retary shall submit to the Congress a report on the grants 
awarded under this section. Each such report shall iden-
tify the overall number of grants awarded under this sec-
tion, which States (or agencies or other governmental 
units thereof) received the grants, the number of new 
nursing faculty who were added, and the number of new 
nurses who are projected to graduate as a result of the 
grant in each State involved. 
‘‘(f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) The term ‘qualifying State’ means a State 
that— 
‘‘(A) is experiencing explosive population 
growth, with total population projected to in-
crease by more than 50 percent between 1990 
and 2025 based on data of the Bureau of the 
Census; 
‘‘(B) has a substantial projected shortage 
of nurses, such that the State is expected to 
have fewer than 555 nurses per 100,000 popu-
lation in 2020, based on data of the Bureau of 
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Health Professions of the Health Resources and 
Services Administration; and 
‘‘(C) is implementing or continuing to im-
plement a program for the purpose of increas-
ing the number of qualified nursing faculty in 
college and university nursing programs in the 
State. 
‘‘(2) The term ‘Secretary’ means the Secretary 
of Health and Human Services. 
‘‘(g) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—To 
carry out this section, there is authorized to be appro-
priated $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 through 
2014.’’. 
Æ 
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