Nurse Training Act
Latest action. Pocket vetoed by President.
(LATEST SUMMARY) Nurse Training Act - =Title I: Construction Assistance= - Extends, under the Public Health Service Act, the authorization of appropriations for grants for specified loan quarantees and interest subsidies. =Title II: Capitation Grants= - States that each collegiate school of nursing shall receive $400 for each student enrolled in each of the last two years of such school. Provides capitation grants for other schools of nursing and authorizes appropriations for such grants. =Title III: Financial Distress Grants= - Allows the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to public or non-profit private schools of nursing which are in serious financial straits. Prescribes the procedures for the making of such grants and authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1977 for the grants. =Title IV: Special Project Assistance= - Empowers the Secretary to make grants to schools of nursing and other entities to meet the costs of special projects, including projects to: (1) increase nursing education opportunities for disadvantaged students; (2) provide continuing education for nurses; (3) increase the supply or distribution by geographic area or by specialty group of adequately trained nursing personnel needed to meet the health needs of the Nation, including the need to increase the availability of personal health services and the need to promote preventive health care; and (4) train and educate in order to upgrade the skills of licensed vocational or practical nurses, nursing assistants, and other paraprofessional nursing personnel. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1977 for such grants and contracts. Provides for the making of grants, and authorizes appropriations for such grants, by the Secretary for: (1) advanced nurse training programs; and (2) nurse practitioner programs. Directs the Secretary to prescribe guidelines for programs for nurse practitioners. =Title V: Assistance to Nursing Students= - Extends the authorization of appropriations for traineeships, student loans, and the program to encourage full utilization of educational talent for nursing. Extends the nursing scholarship program. =Title VI: Technical and Conforming Amendments= - Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Public Health Service Act. =Title VII: Miscellaneous= - Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to determine on a continuing basis the current and projected supply of the various classifications of nurses, their geographic distribution, pay rates, activity status, and advanced training status. Requires a report annually to the Congress upon such findings together with recommendations for legislation to achieve an equitable distribution and supply of nurses within the United States and within each State.
Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Passed Senate amended" stage on December 19, 1974. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.
Where is it in the process, and what happens next?
1 step remains before this bill could become law.
The record's latest action, on January 4, 1975: Pocket vetoed by President.
- A two-thirds vote in both the House and the Senate to override the veto
How likely is it to become law?
Civibrief does not forecast outcomes and this page has no opinion about this one. What the record supports is a base rate, which is a fact about the whole pile, not a prediction about this measure.
In the 93rd Congress (1973-74), 651 of the 23,396 bills and joint resolutions introduced became law, about 2.8 percent. That count covers every measure at every stage, including the many that never left committee.
This one is not there yet: 1 step is still outstanding, listed above.
Has anyone actually voted on it?
No. No roll call in this Congress cites this measure. That is the ordinary outcome: most measures never reach a recorded floor vote, and a committee ends most of them simply by not acting.
A vote is not the only thing that happens to a measure. Hearings, markups, and referrals are all recorded actions, and none of them is a vote of the full chamber.
Who is behind it?
PAUL ROGERS (D-FL) introduced it on October 3, 1974, and 8 members have since signed on as cosponsors.
They come from both major parties: 4 Democrats, 4 Republicans.
Cosponsoring is a formal signature on the text. It is not a commitment to vote for the measure, it does not bind anyone's party, and a long list of cosponsors is a measure of attention rather than of prospects.
How long has it been in play?
It was introduced on October 3, 1974, 18970 days ago. The most recent recorded action was 18877 days ago, on January 4, 1975.
Measures do not carry over. Anything the 93rd Congress has not finished by January 3, 1975 dies when the term ends, and has to be introduced again from the start in the next Congress.
Every answer above is assembled from this measure's own record on Congress.gov and from published counts of what Congress has passed before. Civibrief does not predict outcomes and takes no position on any measure.
Vote history
- HousePassed
- SenatePassed
- PresidentVetoed on January 4, 1975