Congress orders audit of nursing-support grants to plug workforce gaps
S. 547 — Train More Nurses Act · Filed by Jacky Rosen (D-NV) · 3 cosponsors · Introduced Feb 12, 2025 · Hearing held
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What it does
This bill requires the Secretaries of Health and Human Services and Labor to jointly review all federal grant programs that support nursing workforce development and submit a report to Congress within one year with recommendations for improving those programs. The report should focus on increasing nurse faculty (especially in underserved areas), creating pathways for experienced nurses to become faculty, and expanding the pipeline of licensed practical nurses becoming registered nurses.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole operative mechanism is a directive to conduct a study and issue a report. It creates no new programs, funding, or restrictions—only a requirement for executive-branch review and congressional reporting on existing grant programs.
What the text implies
- Report recommendations may inform future appropriations or legislative changes to nursing-support programs, but this bill itself does not authorize spending or program changes.
- Study may reveal gaps in current grant coverage, potentially exposing underserved regions or populations currently excluded from federal nursing-workforce support.
- Emphasis on experienced nurses transitioning to faculty and LPN-to-RN pathways suggests legislative interest in addressing nursing shortages through career-ladder approaches rather than entry-level recruitment alone.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
The bill creates a transparency and accountability mechanism for federal nursing workforce programs without restricting citizen rights or imposing costs. A comprehensive review and public report on nursing-support grants may identify inefficiencies and lead to better-targeted programs, potentially improving access to nursing education and career pathways for ordinary people seeking nursing careers.
Named in the bill
Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Labor, Congress, nursing schools, licensed practical nurses, registered nurses
Where it stands
3 cosponsors: 2 Republicans, 1 Democrats.
- Feb 12, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Feb 12, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions”
- Mar 19, 2026 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
4 lobbying clients named this bill on 7 disclosure filings across 3 quarters, Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $1,880,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 17 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 72% of bills with at least one filing.
Jacky Rosen, the sponsor, reported $207,550 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- American Health Care Association — $840,000 on 1 filing
- Trinity Health — $480,000 on 2 filings
- Direct Supply, Inc. — $440,000 on 2 filings
- Healthcare Workforce Coalition — $120,000 on 2 filings
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 20, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (934 characters) on Aug 20, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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