3.0.0 2705 2017-12-14T23:58:24Z 2017-12-14T23:58:24Z Senate S S 2008-03-05 110 ssas00 Armed Services Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2008-03-05T20:42:32Z Troops to Nurse Teachers Act of 2008 110 5878 HR 2008-05-07 Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel. Identical bill CRS 2008-03-05 ssas00 Armed Services Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. IntroReferral 2008-03-05 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. N I000024 Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK] Jim Inhofe R OK 2008-03-05 True O000167 Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL] Barack Obama D IL 2008-03-05 True L000304 Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [ID-CT] JOSEPH LIEBERMAN ID CT I. 2008-03-05 True B000444 Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE] JOSEPH BIDEN D DE ROBINETTE 2008-03-05 True R000122 Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI] John Reed D RI F. 2008-03-05 True M000702 Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD] BARBARA MIKULSKI D MD ANN 2008-03-05 True C001035 Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME] Susan Collins R ME M. 2008-03-05 True M000639 Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ] Robert Menendez D NJ 2008-03-05 True D000601 Sen. Dole, Elizabeth [R-NC] Elizabeth Dole R NC H. 2008-03-05 True I000025 Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI] DANIEL INOUYE D HI KEN 2008-03-05 True B000944 Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] Sherrod Brown D OH 2008-03-06 False C001041 Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] HILLARY CLINTON D NY R 2008-03-10 False B001233 Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN] EVAN BAYH D IN 2008-03-31 False M001170 Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO] Claire McCaskill D MO 2008-04-02 False K000367 Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] Amy Klobuchar D MN 2008-04-30 False W000802 Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] Sheldon Whitehouse D RI 2008-05-15 False C001057 Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN] Norm Coleman R MN 2008-06-20 False L000123 Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ] FRANK LAUTENBERG D NJ R. 2008-07-31 False Armed Forces and National Security College teachers Continuing education Education Health Higher education Military medicine Military pay Military pensions Nurses Nursing education Recruiting and enlistment Retired military personnel Scholarships Armed Forces and National Security 00 2008-03-05 Introduced in Senate 2008-08-05T18:50:57Z Troops to Nurse Teachers Act of 2008 - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to carry out programs under which commissioned officers of the nurse corps: (1) serve as full-time faculty of accredited schools of nursing in exchange for additional service or in exchange for scholarships provided by the school to those accepting commissions in the nurse corps; (2) receive scholarships leading to a graduate degree in nursing in exchange for service as nursing school faculty and to undertake activities to encourage nurses to serve in the Armed Forces nurse corps; (3) receive nursing faculty career placement and continuing education assistance if they are retirement-eligible and have graduate degrees qualifying them as nurse instructors; or (4) receive, while serving after retirement as faculty at a nursing school, retired pay without reduction and a pay differential to ensure that compensation for faculty member service will not be less than the basic pay received before retirement.

Requires: (1) any program established under this Act to last at least two years; and (2) the Secretary to assess each program to determine if it should be continued.

]]> Troops to Nurse Teachers Act of 2008 Short Titles as Introduced Troops to Nurse Teachers Act of 2008 Display Title Troops to Nurse Teachers Act of 2008 Official Title as Introduced A bill to authorize programs to increase the number of nurses within the Armed Forces through assistance for service as nurse faculty or education as nurses, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2008-03-05T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s2705is/xml/BILLS-110s2705is.xml 2008-03-05 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.