History of our legislative efforts                                                 What to say to your U.S. Senators and Representative

May 30, 2022 
​Some Republicans are holding up the bill.
Removed it from the Veterans Package of bills.
Call, write articles, do whatever to get them onboard before it is too late for our few remaining WWII Cadet Nurses.
Read more here The Forgotten WWII Veterans
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Feb 28, 2022
We are pushing Congress to include our bill in a "veterans package" of bills.
The AACN (American Assoc of Colleges of Nursing) is leading the effort 👏 .
They are asking that we get as many folks as possible to contact their represenatives now, even if you have already.

Dec 15, 2021      😥
Our amendment was removed from the final NDAA by some Republican Senators on the committee who had refused to support our WWII Cadet Nurses -Marsha Blackburn, Josh Hawley, Joni Ernst, Tom Tillis, Rick Scott. 

Feb 28, 2021

​S1220 - 7/28/21 reported out of Senate Vets Affairs Com with support of VA - 
​next step - to the Senate floor for passing.
HR 2568 - 7/14/21 sent to House VA Subcommittee on Disability/Memorials for review. 

​Now is the time to contact or recontact your Reps to thank them for being a Cosponsor or to ask those who are not to please Support and Pass S1220/HR2568

Thanks to the 52 members of the Nursing Community Coalition for submitting
a compelling letter of support.
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January 2021 
Bad News: Bill was held up in Senate Vets Affairs Com, not enough Republicans (4 out of 9) in support to pass 🙁
Good News: Senate is now in Democrat control and we have 7 out of 8 Democrats as supporters of the bill 😊 Bill will be resubmitted 

December 2020
Last chance to pass if we can get it included in the Year-End Omnibus Bill. These Senators on the Veterans Affiars Committee are holding it up.
Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) , Rounds, Mike (R-SD) Sullivan, Dan (R-AK), Tillis, Thom (R-NC), Blackburn, Marcia (R-TN)   Call these Senators and ask " to support or, at least, not oppose moving this bill into the Year-End Omnibus Bill in 2020, “The Year of the Nurse?" 

September 2020 - 
The bill has enough COSPONSORS in the Senate  Veterans Affairs Com to pass out of committee. Now we need to get it on their adgenda by getting more Cosponsors to S997. Click here to see if your Senator is on the list. We need your help !!
January 2020
The final NDAA passed WITHOUT the WWII Cadet Nurse  bill Amendment. We must now push for passage as a stand-alone bill.   S997 in the Senate and HR2056 in the House. This means we MUST get more COSPONSORS, particularly in the Senate.
 
July 12, 2019 Bill passes in House as amendment to NDAA but not in the Senate. Now will go to "reconciliation". We need to get more SENATORS to COSPONSOR S997 and support passage on Final NDAA.

Call your Senators now (202) 224-3121.
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April 2019: New Bills Introduced in U.S. House & Senate!

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has reintroduced the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps Service Recognition Act, a bill aimed at honoring the women who served in the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps during World War II with honorary veteran status. S.997 and HR 2056.

December 2018: Identical Bills Were Introduced in the U.S. House & Senate

Bipartisanship is propelling these twin bills, called The United States Cadet Nurse Corps Service Recognition Act. They were introduced on Dec. 7, 2018.

Senate Bill 3729 was introduced by Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Angus King (I-ME), and Steve Daines (R-MT), and has been joined by Senators Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Robert Menendez (D-NJ).

HR7258 was introduced in the U.S. House by Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-IL)​ and Rep. Greg Gianforte (R-MT).

The gist of the bill, as outlined in the Senate press release, would:
  • Provide Cadet Nurses with veteran's status, with an honorable discharge from service where merited
  • Provide Cadet Nurses with burial benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs (this does NOT include Arlington National Cememtary)
  • Allow the Secretary of Defense to provide honorably discharged Cadet Nurses with a service medal​

​The bill has been endorsed 100% by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Nurses Association, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, American Association for the History of Nursing, and the American Organization of Nurse Executives.
Senator Warren, one of four Senators to sponsor the United States Cadet Nurse Corps Service Recognition Act, released this video about the issue.

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