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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Amends the Nursing Relief for Disadvantaged Areas Act of 1999 to repeal a provision limiting the nonimmigrant classification for nurses working in health professional shortage areas (currently, limited to classification petitions filed within a four-year period beginning on the date of issuance of interim or final regulations under that Act).</p>]]></text>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the House on June 20, 2006. The summary of that version is repeated here.)</b></p> <p>Nursing Relief for Disadvantaged Areas Reauthorization Act of 2005 - Amends the Nursing Relief for Disadvantaged Areas Act of 1999 to reauthorize and extend for three years the H-1C visa program providing nonimmigrant nurses in health professional shortage areas.</p>]]></text>
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