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Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) introduced the Nursing is a Professional Degree Act, which would let post-baccalaureate nursing students borrow up to $50,000 per year and $200,000 total, versus the current $20,500 annual and $100,000 aggregate caps. AANA is among the supporting organizations.
Florida HB 375, which would have allowed qualified CRNAs to practice autonomously, passed the House 78-28 on February 4, 2026 but died in the Senate Rules Committee on March 13. Its Senate companion, SB 462, died in the Health Policy Committee the same day.
Gov. Mike DeWine signed House Bill 52 on March 10, 2026, replacing the requirement that CRNAs work under physician, dentist, or podiatrist supervision with a collaboration model. ASA noted the law retains safeguards, including physical presence of the collaborating practitioner during induction, maintenance, and emergence of general anesthesia, and patient disclosure of who will provide anesthesia.
Filed for the 2026 Florida legislative session, HB 375 would allow qualified CRNAs to practice independently without physician oversight — a significant departure from the current collaborative-protocol regime. Florida is one of the most consequential states still in the partial-authority bucket; passage would push the count of fully-autonomous CRNA states past 24.
Reps. Lauren Underwood (D-IL) and Jen Kiggans (R-VA) introduced legislation to grant the ~1,100 CRNAs in the VA system full practice authority. The VA's 2016 APRN rule pointedly excluded CRNAs; AANA has pressed VA Secretary Doug Collins for inclusion in any future rulemaking. The bill is the most concrete federal practice-authority vehicle CRNAs have had in years.
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